Beit Aryeh-Ofarim

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Beit Aryeh-Ofarim (Hebrew: בֵּית אַרְיֵה-עֳפָרִים) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the northern West Bank.

It is situated on the Palestinian side of the Israeli West Bank barrier,[2] on 8,500 dunams of land.

[5] According to ARIJ, the land for Beit Aryeh-Ofarim was confiscated by Israel from two nearby Palestinian villages: Aboud[6] and Al-Lubban al-Gharbi.

[7][8] In 2011, the Israeli Ministry of Defense signed an agreement with the municipality of Beit Aryeh approving the construction of 100 homes and a bypass road between Beit Aryeh and Ofarim.

[9] In 2020, Beit Aryeh-Ofarim was one of several Israeli settlements that dumped its untreated sewage onto lands of the nearby Palestinian village of Deir Ballut.