According to the Palestinian statistics, the Israeli occupation directly exploits 2,642 thousand dunums in areas classified as (c), which measure 76.3% of the total area (c) of 3,375 thousand dunums.
In a statement issued on Thursday, marking the 43rd anniversary of the Land Day, the Israeli army confirmed that in the year 2018, the Israeli occupation authorities confiscated 508 dunums of Palestinian land, and confiscated hundreds of dunums of Palestinians by expanding Israeli checkpoints and military points. .
According to the statistics, the Israeli occupation razed and upgraded 7,122 trees during the year 2018, bringing the number of trees raised more than a million trees from 2000 until the end of 2018, and thousands of dunums have been transferred to the colonists for planting, the area planted in the Israeli colonies in 2018 About 110 thousand acres, the majority of irrigated crops.
According to the statement, the number of colonial sites and Israeli military bases at the end of the year 2017 in the West Bank 435 sites, including 150 colonies and 116 settlement outposts. The year 2018 saw a significant increase in the pace of construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, where the Israeli occupation approved the construction of about 9,384 colonial units as well as the establishment of nine new colonial overrosts.
He explained that the area of ​​influence in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank amounted to 541.5 square kilometers at the end of 2018, representing about 9.6% of the West Bank, while the confiscated areas for the purposes of military bases and military training sites are about 18% of the West Bank.
The Israeli occupation also places obstacles to the tightening of the siege and restrictions on the urban expansion of the Palestinians, especially in Jerusalem and the areas classified as (c) in the West Bank, which are still under the control of the Israeli occupation in full, in addition to the Wall of annexation and expansion which isolated more than 12% According to the statement.
According to the statement, the number of settlers in the West Bank reached 653,621 at the end of 2017. It is clear from the data that about 47% of the settlers live in the Jerusalem governorate, which numbered about 306,529 settlers, of which 225,335 were in Jerusalem (J1) Which was annexed by the Israeli occupation force following its occupation of the West Bank in 1967. The ratio of colonists to Palestinians in the West Bank is about 22.6 colonists compared to 100 Palestinians, while the highest in Jerusalem governorate is about 70 settlers compared to 100 Palestinians.
The Israeli occupation forces demolished and demolished 471 buildings in the same period, of which about 46% were in the Jerusalem governorate with 215 demolitions. The demolished buildings were divided into 157 residential buildings and 314 establishments, in addition to issuing orders to demolish 546 buildings in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The number of martyrs in Palestine reached 312 martyrs in 2018, including 57 martyrs of children and three women. The number of wounded was 29,600. The number of prisoners in Israeli prisons reached 6,000 prisoners (250 of them children and 54 women).
The Palestinian people salute the anniversary of the Land Day every year in response to the decision to confiscate 21,000 dunums of the lands of Galilee, the Triangle and the Negev on 30 March 1976, the most important of which was the martyrdom of six young men. And his homeland, and in honor of the martyrs of the Earth Day.
