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Carmel (Template:Lang-he-n Karmel) is an Israeli settlement in south-east Har Hebron area of the West Bank, close by the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir, who settled there several decades ago after Israel expelled them from the Arad desert, and purchasing the land from residents in the Palestinian village of Yatta. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Har Hebron Regional Council and associates ideologically with the Amana settlement movement. The moshav was founded in 1980, next to the land on which the Hadaleen Bedouin tribe live, as a Nahal military-establishment, and was "civilianized" in 1981. Today, the settlement is home to approximately 70 families.

The name Carmel was chosen due to the moshav's close proximity to the location of Biblical Carmel (Joshua 15:55), the home of Nabal. Carmel is mentioned in 1 Samuel 25:2 as the home of Nabal. The new settlement is expanding, and, according to one commentator, 'continuing to usurp the land of its neighbors, who lived at the site decades before the settlers arrived.'

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

References

1. ^ Ilana Hammerman, 'West Bank settlement is outdoing its neighboring Bedouin village,' Haaretz 11 November, 2011
2. "The Geneva Convention". BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2010.

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