The Central Bureau of Statistics stated that the area of land seized by the Israeli occupation in 2024 amounted to 46,000 dunams.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) stated in a statement issued on Thursday, on the occasion of Land Day, that during the year 2024, 35 orders were issued to seize approximately 1,073 dunums, five expropriation orders for approximately 803 dunums, and nine orders to declare approximately 24,597 dunums as state lands, in addition to six orders to modify the boundaries of nature reserves. Through these orders, the occupation seized approximately 20,000 dunums, as part of the systematic and ongoing policy to control all Palestinian lands, deprive them of the exploitation of their natural resources, and as part of the annexation policy pursued by the Israeli occupation authorities in the West Bank.

More than 50,700 martyrs in Palestine since the beginning of the occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip.

According to figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 49,747 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, including approximately 18,000 children and 12,300 women, in addition to approximately 11,000 missing persons. Approximately 120,000 others have been injured as of March 24, 2025. Approximately 100,000 Palestinians have left the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the brutal Israeli aggression, which has been ongoing since October 7, 2023. In the West Bank, the Israeli occupation continued its aggression, with 943 Palestinians killed and 6,700 others injured as a result of attacks by Israeli occupation forces and settlers.

More than 70% of housing units in the Gaza Strip are uninhabitable.

The statistics indicated that the occupation destroyed more than 60,368 buildings, and about 110,000 buildings were severely damaged, while the number of housing units that were completely or partially destroyed is estimated at no less than 330,000 housing units, which together constitute more than 70% of the housing units in the Gaza Strip. In addition, schools, universities, hospitals, mosques, churches, and government headquarters were destroyed, in addition to thousands of buildings of economic facilities, and the destruction of all aspects of the infrastructure, including streets, water and electricity lines, sewage lines, and the destruction of agricultural lands, making the Gaza Strip an uninhabitable place.

In the West Bank, the occupation forces demolished and destroyed more than 903 buildings and facilities, either completely or partially, in 2024. These included 242 buildings and facilities in the Jerusalem Governorate (24 self-demolitions in Jerusalem, according to data from the Jerusalem Governorate). In addition, 939 demolition orders were issued for Palestinian facilities under the pretext of lacking permits. Since the beginning of 2025, the occupation authorities have demolished dozens of buildings in Palestinian camps, displacing tens of thousands of their residents as part of a policy of displacing our people.

The population of the Gaza Strip will decrease by 6% by the end of 2024.

The statistics indicated that the estimated population of the State of Palestine at the end of 2024 reached 5.5 million Palestinians (3.4 million in the West Bank, while the estimated population of the Gaza Strip for the year 2024 decreased by about 160,000 Palestinians, reaching 2.1 million (a decrease of 6% compared to the population estimates for the Gaza Strip for the year 2023). Based on the revised population estimates prepared by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, there are approximately 14.9 million Palestinians in the world at the end of 2024, of whom 7.6 million live outside historical Palestine, 5.5 million live in the State of Palestine, and 1.80 million live in the 1948 territories.

More than 85% of water and sanitation facilities and assets have been completely or partially out of service.

The statistics continued: Initial damage assessments up to the ceasefire date showed that more than 85% of water and sanitation facilities and assets were completely or partially out of service and required rehabilitation, at a cost exceeding $1.5 billion, just for the areas where damage was identified. This includes sewage treatment plants, desalination plants, pumping stations, wells, water reservoirs, main transmission lines, water, sanitation and stormwater drainage networks, water monitoring laboratories, and others.

Due to the extensive damage to the water and sanitation sector, water supply rates have declined to an average of 3-5 liters per person per day, varying significantly by geographic location, water supply, infrastructure damage, and ongoing displacement. This rate is below the minimum level required for survival in emergencies, according to the World Health Organization's indicators, estimated at 15 liters per person per day. This is primarily due to damage to infrastructure, the complete power outage necessary for pumping water from wells and operating related water facilities, such as reservoirs and pumping stations, and restrictions on the provision of fuel and materials necessary for their operation.

Colonies are constantly expanding.

The number of Israeli colonial sites and military bases in the West Bank at the end of 2024 reached 551 sites, distributed as follows: 151 settlements, 256 colonial outposts, 29 of which were inhabited outposts that were considered neighborhoods of existing settlements, and 144 other classified sites, including (industrial, tourist, and service areas and camps for the occupation army).

The year 2024 witnessed a significant increase in the pace of settlement construction and expansion, with the occupation authorities approving numerous colonial master plans to build more than 13,000 settlement units throughout the West Bank, including Jerusalem, by seizing approximately 11,888 dunams of Palestinian land.

As for the number of settlers in the West Bank, it reached 770,420 settlers at the end of 2023. Data indicates that most settlers reside in the Jerusalem Governorate, with 336,304 settlers (constituting 43.7% of the total settler population), including 240,516 settlers in Area J1 (which includes the part of the Jerusalem Governorate that Israel forcibly annexed following its occupation of the West Bank in 1967), followed by the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, with 154,224 settlers, 107,068 settlers in the Bethlehem Governorate, and 56,777 settlers in the Salfit Governorate. The governorates with the fewest settlers are Tubas and the Northern Jordan Valley Governorate, with 3,004 settlers.

The ratio of settlers to Palestinians in the West Bank is approximately 23.4 settlers per 100 Palestinians, while it reached its highest level in the Jerusalem Governorate, with approximately 67.6 settlers per 100 Palestinians.