Israeli Land Theft: 440% Increase in 2016

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Israeli Land Theft: 440% Increase in 2016
By contributors | Jun. 30, 2016 |
http://www.juancole.com/2016/06/israeli-theft-increase.html

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Israeli land confiscation policy has notably escalated in occupied Jerusalem and West Bank by 439% since the beginning of 2016, in comparison to last year, a Palestinian report revealed on Tuesday.
Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ) revealed that Israeli authorities confiscated, since the beginning of the year, 7,773 acres of Palestinian-owned lands, recording an increase by 439% in comparison with last year, where 1,442 acres were seized.
Israeli occupation authorities have recently escalated a policy of Judaization in the occupied West Bank, notably by expanding its settlement projects, the report pointed out.
During the reporting period, Israeli occupation forces demolished 276 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, including annexed East Jerusalem, while 108 homes were destroyed during 2015.
343 agricultural facilities were also destroyed during the first half of 2016 while 59 Palestinian facilities were demolished during the same period, last year.
ARIJ revealed that occupation authorities started building 139 using units last May, in the illegal settlement of Shiloh, as part of a project to expand 10 new settlements.
Although Israeli authorities do not make settlement population statistics public, Jerusalem’s Applied Research Institute has reported a population of some 766,000 Israeli settlers residing in illegal settlements scattered across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. All Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are considered illegal under international law.
Source: Palestinian Information Center/PNN
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Related video added by Juan Cole:
PressTV from March: “France concerned about Israel’s land seizure in West Bank”

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Rudolph 2016.06.30 07:29 Reply
Is the following accurate? “[J]erusalem’s Applied Research Institute has reported a population of some 766,000 Israeli settlers residing in illegal settlements scattered across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.”
According to a highly reliable source, by 2010, the number of illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) was approximately 500,000 (see question 15 of the link, below). It is highly unlikely that this number has increased by over 250,000 in five years. If someone has credible information, please provide a link. link to detailedpoliticalquizzes.wordpress.com

Mark Koroi 2016.07.02 12:41 Reply
The human rights organization B’tselem reported as of May 2015 there were an estimated 547,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem:
link to btselem.org
With recent increases in settlement activity there is likely about 20,000 additional settlers since the B’tselem report was issued – giving the total settler population currently around 567,000. This leads me to believe that the cited 766,000 figure may be a typographical error.
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