Israeli soldiers check the identification cards of Palestinians evacuating their homes in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams in February.

Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site, according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian territory.

Israel’s Civil Administration announced its intention to expropriate large swaths of Sebastia, a major archeological site in the West Bank, in the document obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog group, said the site is around 450 acres – Israel’s largest seizure of archaeologically important land.

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