The Great Land Robbery

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The Great Land Robbery

• Settlement Building on
• Private Palestinian Property

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From the States response to Peace Nows Petition
The issue of the petition is a complex and most
sensitive issue, where, among others, security
considerations and foreign relations aspects of
the State of Israel are concerned
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Land Status in the West Bank

• State Land
• Private Palestinian Land
• Survey Land
• Land Owned by Jews

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Private Palestinian Land
From the Talia Sasson Report It is absolutely
prohibited to establish outposts on private
Palestinian property. Such an action may in
certain circumstances become a felony There is
no way to validate the establishment of an
outpost on private Palestinian property, not even
post factum. Such outposts must be evacuated, the
sooner the better.
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Main Findings

• 80.25 of the settlements and outpost sit (fully
  or partially) on Private Palestinian Land (130 of
  162)
• Only 27 settlements and outposts are clean from
  Private Palestinian Land or Survey Land

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The Total Area of the Settlements
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Settlements West of the Fence (on the Israeli
side)
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Samaria
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Hebron Area
The city of Hebron excluded
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Gush Etzion
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Binyamin
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Jordan Valley
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Ofra
Private Palestinian Land - 93.2 Survey Land -
0 Jewish Land - 2.9 State Land - 4
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Maale Adumim
Private Palestinian Land - 86.4 Survey Land -
0.7 Jewish Land - 0 State Land - 13
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Ariel
Private Palestinian Land -35.1 Survey Land
1.9 Jewish Land0 State Land - 62.9
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Migron
100 Private Palestinian Land
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Alfei Menashe
Private Palestinian Land - 27.2 Survey Land -
0 Jewish Land - 0 State Land - 72.8
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Beit El
At least 96.9 Private Palestinian Land (We do
not have information about the status of land of
the rest of the settlement)
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Elazar
Private Palestinian Land - 85.8 Survey Land -
14.2 Jewish Land - 0 State Land - 0
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The Authenticity of the Data
For example, the jurisdiction map of Alfei
Menashe fits well to the data of the Private and
the State Land (notice the enclaves)
Legend Red Private Palestinian Land Gray
State Land Green Jewish Land Yellow Survey
Land
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The map of Har Adar the parcels and the
built-up line match our data regarding the
ownership.
Legend Red Private Palestinian Land Gray
State Land Green Jewish Land Yellow Survey
Land
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