B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occcupied Territories, has produced a report highlighting the fact that 42% of the land on the occupied West Bank is now controlled by settlers. The report, By Hook and By Crook: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank, is available in PDF format here. The UK's Independent newspaper ran a front page splash this morning featuring the report.
Some half a million Israelis are now living over the Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements and about one hundred outposts, which control 42 percent of the land area of the West Bank, and the rest in twelve neighborhoods that Israel established on land it annexed to the Jerusalem Municipality. The report analyzes the means employed by Israel to gain control of land for building the settlements. In preparing the report, B'Tselem relied on official state data and documents, among them Attorney Talia Sasson’s report on the outposts, the database produced by Brigadier General Baruch Spiegel, reports of the state comptroller, and maps of the Civil Administration.
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