[News] Israel now occupies 85% of historic Palestine

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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200401-israel-now-occupies-85-of-historic-palestine/
Israel
now occupies 85% of historic Palestine
April 1, 2020
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Israel now occupies at least 85 per cent of the total area of historic
Palestine, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) has
confirmed. The Palestinians control less than 15 per cent under strict
Israeli restrictions.

The PCBS issued the details in a report to mark Palestine Land Day on 30
March. It pointed out that Jewish migrants from overseas now account for a
third of the population of the colonial-settler state.

According to the report, there were 13 million Palestinians by the end of
2019. Of these, 5 million are in the occupied Palestinian territories while
1,597,000 live in the land occupied since 1948 and are citizens of Israel.
Around 6 million Palestinians live in other Arab countries, with 727,000 in
the wider diaspora around the world.

*READ: Israeli occupation forces demolish Palestinian farm as settler
attacks continue
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200327-israeli-occupation-forces-demolish-palestinian-farm-as-settler-attacks-continue/>*

The report explained that the Israeli occupation authorities have used the
Oslo division of the Palestinian West Bank into areas A, B and C in order
to strengthen their control over the territory. Area C, which makes up 76
per cent of the occupied land, is under Israel’s security and
administrative control.

The PCBS pointed out that Israel has demolished 678 Palestinian facilities
in the occupied West Bank, including 251 residential buildings. The 600
military checkpoints and barricades at the entrances of Palestinian cities,
towns and villages are turning the West Bank into a series of barely
connected cantons, it added.

Israel also imposes restrictions or prevents Palestinians from using
certain roads in the occupied West Bank in order to give free access to
Jewish settlers whose presence in the territory is illegal under
international law. Seven streets in the centre of Hebron alone are limited
to Jews only in what is traditionally a Palestinian area.

In Gaza, the Israelis have created a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of
the nominal border fence. The zone was created on agricultural land which
is no longer available for Palestinian farmers to use. Moreover, it takes
up an incredible 25 per cent of the total area of the Gaza Strip.

*
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200323-israels-illegal-occupation-exacerbates-the-coronavirus-crisis/>*
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