[News] Israeli Land Theft - 440% Increase in 2016

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  Israeli Land Theft: 440% Increase in 2016

June 29, 2016

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 
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Palestinian land are considered illegal under international law.

/Source: Palestinian Information Center/PNN/

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