How many settlements are in the West Bank?
HopelessZ00 asked:
What is the population of settlers living there plz? And how does the “wall” effect their lives? Does it zig zag around the settlements? How does the wall effect Palestinians living in the West Bank? Thank you in advance.
What is the population of settlers living there plz? And how does the “wall” effect their lives? Does it zig zag around the settlements? How does the wall effect Palestinians living in the West Bank? Thank you in advance.
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May 15th, 2009 at 8:26 am
one too many
May 17th, 2009 at 7:34 am
There are approxiately a quarter of a million Israeli settlers living in the West Bank that is to say
250, 000 settlers.
With every settlement comes the usual backlog such as seperation walls not the huge seperation wall you speak of but smaller ones that gate of individual communities and roads from Palestinian use.
Ofcourse with settlements comes the usual military prescence.
I remember back in the time when there was settlements in Gaza there was a settlement of 5000, they required an IDF prescence of 30 000 so ive heard.
So when taking into count the settler population take note of the IDF prescence aswell.
As for the wall it is only the largest wall of many many smaller ones.
It basically cuts through the
West Bank effectively annexing Palestinian land to Israel, not on the record but it changes the landscape to such a degree that it is as if it was part of Israeli territory.
Even before the wall freedom of movement across the West Bank for palestinians was very very difficult, there are many smaller walls like i said, there are check points and such this mother of all walls just adds to the palestinains feeling of being in an open air prison.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
All what I know is that the total number of Israeli settlements in the palestinian land occupied in 1967 is about 200. Other than that I don’t know. The wall is really big and it takes a large area that is supposed to be Palestinian. One of the conditions of the coming peace agreement is to pull down that wall because it occupies a large area where palestinians could build houses on. It also occupies areas of some people’s farms.
Peace
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I reject calling them “settlers”. I call them citizens, because this is their 4,000 yr old homeland.
The Arabs must own up to the facts- by the end of the day, they will never have a state formed by land in Judea and Samaria. Israel will not try to move hundreds of thousands of its own people to “make peace” with the Arabs. Your best bet Arabs, is to get Gaza and be happy with that.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
first of all i agree with ultra for change…
if u call them settlers then all of israel is a huge settlement!!!
eu – most of the time u give true nubers and fact’s but now u mistaken.
do u know that allot of palastinians dont want israel to pull out???
(news – yediot ahronot poll)
allot of them wish that the wall will cut there village , but in the way that they will be inside israel…
the articel shows the difference beetwen gaza people to west bank people.
the reason that they against the wall is that it’s seperate them from israel!!!
it’s seperate them from a fine law system , a monthly pay from the govermant , and allot more good thing’s…
i dont now what u read in the news in your country but, the fact is that the palastinians are too much divided in their opinion’s.
especially gaza and the west bank ( hamas – fatah)
the wall is more effect on israelis, it’s shine us in a very dark way…for no reason.
the wall has stooped the suicide boombing for good!!!
that is good reason for me. when the war end’s i will be heapy to knock it down with my hends. peace
May 25th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Just 2 days ago the International Herald Tribune published an article on this. They write “As of October, 267,500 Israelis lived in 122 settlements, according to government statistics.”
They also write “Although settlement building isn’t proceeding at the furious pace of the 1980s and early 1990s, the settler population has more than doubled since Israel and the Palestinians signed their first peace deal in September 1993.”
It is important to note that Israel built settlements throughout the West Bank even though international law prohibits an occupying power from settling its population in occupied territory. As Human Rights Watch points out, building settlements contravenes international law and Israeli commitments under the Road Map.
Amnesty International states “The establishment and maintenance of Israeli settlements – in effect, colonies – have been repeatedly condemned by UN human rights bodies, yet these settlements remain and continue to be expanded in the West Bank in violation of international humanitarian law and to the detriment of the rights of the local Palestinian population.
In January 2007, the Israeli Ministry of the Interior released figures according to which the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank increased by 5.8 percent in the previous year.
Repeated undertakings by the Israeli Government to remove all unauthorized Israeli settlement outposts established in the West Bank since 2001 have not been implemented. On the contrary, new unauthorized settlement outposts were established in the past year, seemingly with the tacit approval and encouragement of the Israeli authorities.”
With regards to the wall, Amnesty writes the following:
Currently, the majority of Palestinians who have been separated from their land by the fence/wall have not been able to obtain permits from the Israeli army to access their land. At the same time, Israeli settlers who live in settlements between the Green Line and the fence/wall, have free access to all of the land in the area.
The existence of settlements, the construction of the fence/wall, mostly inside the occupied West Bank, and the presence of military checkpoints and blockades (currently numbering more than 500), to an extent all benefit Israeli settlers residing in the West Bank at the cost of Palestinian human rights – these measures impede the freedom of movement of Palestinians and deny their access to other basic rights.
In Jerusalem, because of the construction of the fence/wall, there has been an influx into the city of Palestinian residents from commuter villages located outside the wall, who now live in increasingly overcrowded quarters within the wall due to the enormous difficulties of transport into Jerusalem and fear of permanently being cut off. As a result, many Palestinians are being forced out of villages cut off by the fence/wall.
We saw the Berlin wall go down in our lifetime. I pray we can live long enough to see peace and the separation wall come down.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Even if there is one settlement, it is too many!