Israelis revive West Bank settlement

BURQAH, May 30 (AFP): Israelis started reviving a flashpoint outpost settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, AFP journalists said, constructing a building at the site which has drawn international attention.
Using a truck, diggers and an earth roller, work got underway to erect a portable building at the northern West Bank site.
AFP journalists saw Israeli soldiers guarding around 20 people carrying out construction work at the Homesh site, which Israel evacuated nearly two decades ago.
The latest development comes weeks after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged his government had no plans to reconstruct the site, after a parliamentary vote on the matter sparked ire abroad.
It was hailed as a "moving historic moment" by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir-an extreme-right settler.