The government intends to provide hundreds of young settlers in the West Bank a budget of 50 NIS ($17) a day each to cover food and clothes, as part of a government program that is ostensibly meant to prevent violence against local Palestinians, the Ynet news site reported on Monday.

The outlet cited a document from the Ministry of Settlement and National Missions, led by far-right Religious Zionism MK Orit Strock, which it said plans to transfer the funds to regional councils, which will in turn provide them to the teenage recipients.

The ministry has identified 657 recipients, who are spread out on hilltops and farming outposts across the West Bank, according to the report. Of them, 225 are located in the Binyamin region, 129 in Samaria, 120 in the Jordan Valley, 99 in the Hebron area, and 84 in Gush Etzion.

According to the document, the funds are intended to last some seven months, until the end of the calendar year, at a total cost of some NIS 5.5 million ($1.9m). The report said these funds will also be distributed via food stamps, to cover basic necessities.

According to the report, these funds are part of a much larger program, costing some NIS 120 million ($41.3m), to address by educational means the phenomenon of runaway violence against Palestinians by extremist settlers, who have been carrying out violent attacks on a near-daily basis in recent years, with almost total impunity.

The larger program includes funds for social workers,........

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