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WEST BANK & JERUSALEM MAP
The Settlements: The Biggest Threat To A Two-State Solution

Settlement Watch Team / January 2011
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Number of Settlers in the West Bank: 296,586 Number of Palestinians in the West Bank: 2,275,982
(excluding East Jerusalem)
Number of settlers on the Palestinian side of the barrier The Planned Route of the Separation Barrier
The Proposed Border According to the Geneva Initiative
Number of settlers on the Israeli side of the barrier
69,415 129,856
227,171 166,730
The number of settlers is based on figures published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009; The number of Palestinians is based on figures published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009.
From 1993 to 2009 40,071 new housing units were built in the settlements
Construction of New Homes in the Settlements 1986-2009
8000 7,750 7000 6000 5000 4,337 4000 3000 2000 1,270
SHAAL Peace Now for Israel Educational Enterprises (R.A.)
6,180 4,968
2,854 2,564 2,240 1,580 520 1,470 1,670 1,320 1,981
3,491 2,069 1,567 1,701 1,944 1,518 1,471 2,028 2,107 1,888
1000 0
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Unity Government Shamir Rabin Netanyahu Barak Sharon Olmert Netanyahu
According to the data of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009
Settlers in Secular Settlements
15%
Settlers in National-Religious Settlements
Settlers in Ultra-Orthodox Settlements
29%
Settlements
Population
24%
0 - 1,000 1,001 - 5,000
Settlers in Mixed, Religious-Secular Settlements
5,001 - 20,000 20,001 - 50,000
32%
Palestinian Localities
Population
0 - 1,000 1,001 - 5,000 5,001 - 20,000 20,001 - 180,000 Outposts
Separation Barrier
Constructed Barrier Route Planned Barrier Route A Possible Agreement
(Geneva initiative)
Roads used by Palestinians Roads used by Israelis The Green Line Jerusalem Municipal Border Area A - Palestinian Control Area B - Partial Palestinian Control Area C Full Israeli Control Settlements' Municipal Area
The Expansion of Beitar Illit

Beitar Illit 1999
An Overpass for a Settlement (Rechelim, 200 settlers)
The Settlements in the West Bank

According to Israeli law, settlements in the West Bank are not part of the state of Israel and they are under control of the Israeli military. The state of Israel has never annexed the occupied territories, in order to avoid annexing the 2,275,982 Palestinians who live in the West Bank. Despite the Israeli consensus supporting the two-state solution, successive Israeli governments have invested huge amounts of money and resources in the settlement enterprise building in the settlements, building infrastructure for the settlements, providing security for settlements and settlers, and providing incentives to encourage Israelis to live beyond the Green Line. In 1993, at the beginning of the peace process, there were 116,000 settlers in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem). Today there are almost 300,000. The message this sends to the Palestinians is dangerous: that talking with Israel does not result in peace, but rather, has resulted in the more than doubling of the number of settlers. Continued settlement construction will eventually bring the situation to the point of no return in which an agreement based on two states for two peoples is no longer possible.
An Expansion of a Settlement
adjacent Palestinian villages, to create united, expanded Jerusalem. It is this annexed land that is today referred to as East Jerusalem. Approximately 263,323 Palestinians reside in East Jerusalem as legal residents of Israel, representing one-third of the total population of Jerusalem. They are eligible for National Insurance payments as well as government provided health and municipal services, but they are not considered citizens and do not have the right to vote for the Knesset or to carry an Israeli passport. Their residency rights can also be revoked by Israel for any number of reasons, with almost no recourse. Since 1967, one-third of the territory of East Jerusalem has been expropriated by Israel using various means. It is on this expropriated land the government of Israel has built some 50,000 housing units in 12 settlements, where today 191,807 Jews reside. While many refer to Jerusalem as Israels unified capital, the fact is that Jewish West Jerusalem and Palestinian East Jerusalem have never been integrated into one united city. It is not too late for a peace agreement that address Jerusalem along the lines of those suggested by former President Clinton in what are known as the Clinton Parameters: what is Palestinian will become part of Palestine and what is Jewish will become part of Israel. However, ongoing settlement construction in East Jerusalem, and particularly settlements activity inside Palestinian neighborhoods like Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, A-Tur, and others increases tensions and friction and threaten to alter the status quo to the point where an agreement in Jerusalem will no longer be possible. This, in turn, will mean the end of the two-state solution.
Beitar Illit 2010
Settlement Watch Team

Peace Nows Settlement Watch Team provides the Israeli public with information about settlements so that they can understand what is at stake: Israels future as a Jewish state and a democracy is in jeopardy if settlement growth is not stopped and the two-state solution not implemented.
East Jerusalem
Unlike the rest of the West Bank, which has never been annexed by Israel, after the 1967 War Israel annexed approximately 71 square kilometers of land occupied during the war, including Jordanian Jerusalem and dozens of
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EAST JERUSALEM
Settler Houses Settler-run Tourist Sites National Park Israeli Underground Excavations Jerusalem Municipal Border The Old City Fabric of Life Road
Separation Barrier
A Possible Agreement (Geneva initiative) The Green Line Israel Settlement Palestinian Population Constructed Barrier Route Planned Barrier Route

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WEST BANK & JERUSALEM MAP

The Settlements: The Biggest Threat To A Two-State Solution

Learn more about our fight for peace for Israel

Number of settlers on the Israeli side of the barrier

2,854 2,564 2,240 1,580 520 1,470 1,670 1,320 1,981

According to the data of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009

Settlers in Secular Settlements

Settlers in Ultra-Orthodox Settlements

0 - 1,000 1,001 - 5,000

Settlers in Mixed, Religious-Secular Settlements

5,001 - 20,000 20,001 - 50,000

0 - 1,000 1,001 - 5,000 5,001 - 20,000 20,001 - 180,000 Outposts

Constructed Barrier Route Planned Barrier Route A Possible Agreement

The Expansion of Beitar Illit

The Settlements in the West Bank

Beitar Illit 2010

Settlement Watch Team

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