The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture authorized the settlers to seize thousands of dunums of Palestinian agricultural lands that surround 6 colonial outposts in the occupied West Bank, according to Haaretz newspaper. 

Haaretz disclosed that the Peace Now organization had a response by the Israeli government in which it said that it allocated 8500 dunums of agricultural lands to those outposts for grazing and farming.  

It said that the Agriculture Ministry supported 3 Israeli organizations that send volunteers to work in those colonial outposts, amounts of up to 4 million NIS per year. 

The Ministry said it granted those permits of grazing and farming based on the recommendations of the civil administration of the Israeli army.