Gaza _ Palestine News Network
The "Land Research" center of the Arab Studies Association in occupied Jerusalem revealed that the pace of Israeli settlement in the occupied territories has quadrupled since the signing of the Oslo Agreement between the PLO and the Israeli occupation 25 years ago.
"The occupation doubled the number of Israeli colonies on the West Bank territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip from 144 colonies before Oslo to 515 colonies and a Colonial outpost today (2018), bringing the number of Jewish colonists from 252 thousand before Oslo to about 834," the center said in a report. A colonizer today, an increase of more than three times the number before the signing of the agreement in 1993. "
In addition, the area of Palestinian land seized in favour of settlement, which reached an area of about 136 thousand dunums before the Oslo agreement, now stands at 500,000 dunums, an increase of about 368 per cent compared to the situation before 1993, according to the report.
Over the past 25 years, the Israeli occupation has torn the West Bank apart, created the apartheid wall and deployed some 839 barriers to separate and isolate Palestinian communities from each other, according to the trust of the Center for "Land research ".
The report concluded that this data "proves legitimately that the Israeli occupation governments are supported by the Governments of the United States of America and used Oslo as a ploy to circumvent the parameters of the Palestinian cause."
The Oslo Agreement, a peace agreement signed by "Israel " and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington, D.C., on 13 September 1993, was attended by former US President Bill Clinton, which was the product of secret talks between the Palestinians and Israelis in the Norwegian city of Oslo in 1991.
The agreement included the recognition by the occupation of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, while the latter recognized the Israeli occupation and its state, which was based on 78 per cent of the historic territory of Palestine (except the West Bank and Gaza).
The agreement also provided for the withdrawal of the occupation within five years of land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in stages, its recognition of the right of Palestinians to self-government over these territories, the establishment of an elected Legislative Council for the Palestinian people in the territories under its authority and the establishment of a police force to maintain security.
