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Did
you know…
- Jewish
settlers in the West Bank consume 5 times more water than Palestinians
- water that is illegally taken from Palestinian water sources.
- 80%
of the settlers consider themselves to be economic settlers who live
in the settlements to benefit from government incentives.
- Palestinian
travel is restricted or entirely prohibited on 41 roads and sections
of roads throughout the West Bank, covering a total of over 700 kilometers
of roadway. Settlers can travel freely on these roads.
- There
are two different laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; one
for the settlers - civil law - and one for the Palestinians - military
law.
- There
are now more Jewish settlers in Palestinian East Jerusalem than Palestinians.
-
Israeli
Jews living, working or investing in the settlements are entitled
to significant financial benefits from the
Government of Israel. These include generous loans for the purchase
of apartments, exemption from tuition fees in schools and reductions
in income taxes.
- Settlements
with their bypass roads and security zones occupy 42% of the West
Bank.
- Before
Israel evacuated its 8,000 settlers from Gaza Strip, they were occupying
32% of the area, with the remainder inhabited by 1.4 million Palestinians.
The population density was 600 per square kilometer in the settlements
to 55,000 per square kilometer in the refugee camps, making Gaza the
most densely populated place on earth.
- There
are now more than 200 Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank.
- During
the Oslo era, from its inauguration on the White House lawn in September
1993 until June 2001, Israel completed construction on 20,371 settlement
units; a number equal to 62% of all settlement housing built from
1967 to 1993.
- The
wall Israel is constructing in the West Bank is four times the length
of the Berlin Wall and three times as high.
- The
length of the 'Green Line' - the border between Israel and the West
Bank - is 315 kilometers. The path of the Wall is 670 kilometers long.
- Israel
receives approximately US $10 million every day from the United States.
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