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(IsraelNN.com) Members of the Land of Israel Faithful group announced their intention to construct 11 new communities within Judea and Samaria in the coming week. The activists said “Overnight in 1946, the Jewish settlement established in one night 11 new places ahead of dividing the land,” a flyer from the group stated. The group also called for establishing new communities ahead of the visit of U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell.

Three of the 11 locations called for construction have been built and dismantled in the past: Nofei Yarden, north of Shiloh; Oz Yehonatan, north of Kochav HaShachar; and Mitzpeh Avichai, in the Hevron region.

Adv. Michael Sefard, legal counsel of the Yesh Din group, stated that the organization intends to approach the army and police on Sunday morning in order to prevent building the communities. “The manifest raises heavy suspicions of the intention to violate the law in an organized manner,” Sefard said.