LONDON: Israeli settlers set up mobile homes east of the Ramallah and Al-Bireh district in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, potentially marking the initiation of a new illegal outpost in the area.

Residents told the Wafa news agency that the makeshift settler units were installed between the towns of Burqa and Deir Dibwan to expand the Ramat Migron settlement, which is built on Palestinian-owned land.

Some of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank since 1967 started as mobile homes that later expanded into permanent structures. Many outposts begin without official approval but were later legalized by Israeli authorities, the Wafa added.

Israeli forces have carried out 1,523 violations this year, while settlers committed 621 attacks against Palestinians, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. The most incidents occurred in Ramallah and Al-Bireh (360), followed by Hebron (348), Bethlehem (342), and Nablus (334).

All settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.

Excluding East Jerusalem, which was occupied and annexed by Israel in 1967, some 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, along with about 3 million Palestinian residents.