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<h1 id="reader-title">Israeli Land Theft: 440% Increase in 2016</h1>
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category-news-report category-palestine
category-refugeesimmigration" id="post-63407"><span>June
29, 2016</span>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.<br>
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.</p>
<p>343 agricultural facilities were also destroyed during
the first half of 2016 while 59 Palestinian facilities
were demolished during the same period, last year.<br>
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.</p>
<p>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 <a target="_blank"
href="http://imemc.org/article/category/topics/israeli-settlement/">Israeli
settlements</a> on Palestinian land are considered
illegal under international law.</p>
<p><em>Source: Palestinian Information Center/PNN</em></p>
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