The commander of the IDF's Etzion Brigade, Col. Eran Makov, announced over the weekend that the IDF intends to place a military outpost at Shdema, the site of a former IDF base between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion.
The site at Shdema has been hotly contested for several years, with nationalist activists holding weekly events at the site in order to prevent it from falling into Arab hands.