Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli regime, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intends to allocate 5.5 million shekels (approximately $1.89 million) in official funding to the extremist Jewish settlers group “Hilltop Youth.”

According to a report published by the Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper on Monday, the budget was detailed in a document released by the so-called Settlement and National Missions Ministry, which is overseen by Minister Orit Strock. The ministry will manage the distribution of funds through regional settlement councils located in the occupied West Bank.

The funding initiative is set to commence in June, and will continue until the end of the year, amounting to a total of 5.5 million shekels, as stated in the report.

As per the newspaper’s findings, each member of the Hilltop Youth movement is expected to receive around $550 per month to assist with food, clothing, and living expenses for over 650 youths residing in the illegal hilltop outposts and pastoral settlement areas throughout the occupied West Bank.

The Hilltop Youth is characterized as an extremist Jewish settler movement, with its members primarily residing in unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank, and they are known for their resistance to evacuation efforts.

This group has often been associated with attacks against Palestinians, and is regarded as the ideological core of the extremist “Price Tag” movement, which has executed retaliatory assaults against Palestinians and their properties.