Six Gush Emunim settlements in the West Bank have been abandoned, Al Hamishmar reported Friday. Gush Emunim comprises Orthodox Jewish settlers.
The newspaper reported that a correspondent who visited the Har Bracha settlement near Nablus on Wednesday found locked buildings and a pile of two-month-old unclaimed mail. After an hour of wandering he encountered a lone woman settler from one of the four families still at the site out of 34. “It’s sad to see this place empty,” she said.
Uri Elitzur, a member of the Amana Gush Emunim settlement organization, said a social crisis had cause the families to leave. He admitted that five other settlements are in a similar situation.
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