West Bank Israeli Settlements Map
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West bank israeli settlements map. Israeli settlements are civilian communities inhabited by israeli citizens almost exclusively of jewish ethnicity built on lands occupied by israel in the 1967 six day war. Map of west bank settlements and closures in january 2006. One adorned his state department. 52 settlements inside israel s west bank security barrier with 358 405 settlers 78 settlements outside the barrier with 107 803 settlers this figure includes the 15 enclave settlements which comprise 7 square kilometers or 0 1 of the west bank and hold 15 061 settlers or 3 of total settlers.
Encyclopedia of jewish and israeli history politics and culture with biographies statistics articles and documents on topics from anti semitism to zionism. Map of jewish settlements in west bank. According to official israeli government data released last week the population of israeli settlements in the west bank grew almost 25 percent between 2009 when current israeli prime minister. It also includes 30 settlements in the.
Deror avi cc by sa 3 0. The map as it is currently written gives israel territorial contiguity in the jordan valley and places the palestinians there including those in the city of jericho into enclaves with little. Yellow palestinian urban centers. Gush etzion is a group of israeli settlements on the west bank between bethlehem and hebron about 950 meters above the sea level.
Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will begin annexing parts of the occupied palestinian west bank with three large illegal settlements with the jordan valley to come later according to. Lowenstein was the obama administration s special envoy on israeli palestinian negotiations a position that exposed him to hundreds of maps of the west bank. Light pink closed military areas or settlement boundary areas or areas isolated by the israeli west bank barrier. The west bank has been under israeli control since the 1967 six day war and the area is now home to over 400 000 israeli settlers.