Today, Wednesday, the Central Bureau of Statistics stated that the number of Israeli colonial sites and military bases reached 483 sites until the end of the year 2021 in the West Bank .

In a statement, on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of Earth Day, the agency said, "These sites are distributed in 151 settlements, 25 inhabited outposts that were considered as neighborhoods belonging to existing settlements, 163 colonial outposts, and 144 other classified sites, which include (industrial, tourist, service areas, and camps for the occupation army)." .

The year 2022 witnessed a significant increase in the pace of building and expanding Israeli settlements , and the occupation authorities approved about 83 colonial plans to build more than 22,000 colonial units throughout the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

According to the statement, the occupation authorities and colonizers, with the protection of the occupation army, carried out 8,724 attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property during the year 2022, with 1,515 attacks on religious property and places, 362 attacks on lands and natural resources, and 6,847 attacks on individuals.

He pointed out that the occupation authorities carried out a total of 378 demolitions during the year 2022, affecting 953 facilities in the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem, and most of them were concentrated in the Jerusalem governorate, with 118 demolitions, or 31%.

And the statistics indicated that the number of Palestinian and Arab martyrs reached about one hundred thousand martyrs, since the Nakba in 1948 until today (inside and outside Palestine), while the number of martyrs from the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada until 12/31/2022 reached about 11,540 martyrs, and during the year 2022 the number of martyrs reached There are 231 martyrs in Palestine, including 56 children and 17 women.

The occupation controls more than 85% of the land of historical Palestine

The estimated number of Palestinians in the world at the end of 2022 was about 14.3 million, of whom 5.4 million reside in the State of Palestine, and about 1.7 million Palestinians in the 1948 lands, while the number of Palestinians in Arab countries reached about 6.4 million Palestinians, and about 761 thousand in foreign countries, in When the number of Jews in historic Palestine reaches 7.1 million, and thus the number of Palestinians and Jews in historical Palestine equals by the end of the year 2022, at 7.1 million each.

The Israeli occupation exploits more than 85% of the total land area in historical Palestine, knowing that the Jews during the British Mandate era and until 1947 exploited only 1,682 square kilometers, which constituted 6.2% of the land of historical Palestine.

The occupation exploits 76% of the total area classified as (C).

The Israeli occupation took advantage of the classification of lands according to the Oslo Accords (A, B, and C) to tighten control over Palestinian lands, especially in areas classified (C), which are completely subject to the control of the Israeli occupation, as the Israeli occupation directly exploits 76% of the total The area classified as (C), where the regional councils of the settlements control 63% of it, while the area of the areas of influence in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank (including the closed areas designated for the expansion of these settlements) amounted to about 537 square kilometers at the end of 2022, representing about 10% Of the area of the West Bank, while the areas confiscated for the purposes of military bases and military training sites represent about 18% of the area of the West Bank at 1,016 km2, in addition to the annexation and expansion wall that isolated more than 10% of the area of the West Bank, and more than 219 Palestinian communities were damaged as a result The construction of the wall, which is about 714 km long. Since 1967, the Israeli occupation authorities have confiscated about 353 thousand dunums of Palestinian lands and classified them as natural reserves in preparation for their seizure.

As for the number of settlers in the West Bank, it reached 719,452 settlers, at the end of the year 2021, and the data indicates that most of the settlers live in Jerusalem governorate by 326,523 settlers (constituting 45.4% of the total number of settlers), of whom 239,951 settlers are in J1 area (including The part of Jerusalem governorate that the Israeli occupation annexed by force after its occupation of the West Bank in 1967), followed by Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate with 143,311 settlers, 95,279 settlers in Bethlehem governorate and 50,067 settlers in Salfit governorate. As for the lowest governorates in terms of the number of settlers, they are Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley with 2,629 settlers. The ratio of settlers to Palestinians in the West Bank is about 23 settlers for every 100 Palestinians, while the highest is in Jerusalem governorate with about 69 settlers for every 100 Palestinians.

70 colonial plans to build more than 10,000 colonial units in Jerusalem during 2022

Within the policy of deportation and replacement, the Israeli occupation authorities are taking accelerated Judaization measures in Jerusalem in order to obliterate the Islamic and Christian monuments, displace the Palestinians from the city of Jerusalem, and replace them with Israelis coming from all over the world. During the year 2022, the Israeli occupation authorities approved about 70 colonial plans to build more than 10,000 buildings. A colonial unit in the Jerusalem governorate and its surroundings, at a time when the Israeli occupation authorities demolished more than 258 buildings and issued demolition decisions for more than 220 buildings, including 100 residential buildings in the Al-Bustan neighborhood within the collective demolition policy, which leads to the displacement of 1,550 people, the majority of whom are children and women. In addition, the frequency of targeting Palestinians increased, as 19 Jerusalemites were martyred and about 2,486 were injured by the Israeli occupation bullets during the year 2022. The number of arrest cases launched by the Israeli occupation in Jerusalem governorate increased during the year 2022, as the number of arrest cases reached about 3,504 cases, compared to about 2,879 cases in The year 2021, an increase of about 22%.

More than 8,700 attacks carried out by the occupation and its settlers in 2022

The Israeli occupation authorities and settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, carried out 8,724 attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property during the year 2022. These attacks were distributed by 1,515 attacks on religious property and places, 362 attacks on lands and natural resources, and 6,847 attacks on individuals. On the other hand, the year 2022 witnessed an attempt by settler groups on 63 occasions to establish outposts, most notably the attempt of the right-wing Nahla movement to establish more than 10 outposts on 7/20/2022. The occupation forces and settlers also launched a total of 223 confiscation operations of about 294 Palestinian property, including 48 agricultural tractors. , and 53 cars for citizens. These attacks also caused the uprooting, damage and destruction of 10,291 olive trees, including 2,400 trees in the Nablus governorate.

378 demolitions affected 953 facilities in the West Bank in 2022

During the year 2022, the Israeli occupation authorities carried out a total of 378 demolitions, affecting 953 establishments in the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem. Most of the demolitions were concentrated in the Jerusalem governorate, with 118 demolitions, or 31%, leaving 178 demolished establishments in the city of Jerusalem, of which 98 were demolitions. Self, and the Israeli occupation authorities issued 1,220 demolition notices, of which about 33% were in Hebron Governorate, 18% in Bethlehem Governorate, and 9% in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, in addition to the destruction of many infrastructure sites that serve the Palestinians, including roads, water and sanitation networks. Entertainment places...etc.

About a hundred thousand martyrs since the Nakba

The number of Palestinian and Arab martyrs since the Nakba in 1948 until today (inside and outside Palestine) reached about 100,000 martyrs, while the number of martyrs from the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada until 12/31/2022 reached about 11,540 martyrs. 2,240 martyrs, of whom 2,181 were martyred in the Gaza Strip, most of them were martyred during the aggression on the Gaza Strip, while during the year 2022, the number of martyrs in Palestine reached 231 martyrs, including 56 martyrs of children and 17 women, while the number of wounded reached about 10 thousand, and the number of prisoners in prisons The Israeli occupation, as it is at the end of February 2022, reached 4,700 prisoners (of whom 150 are children, in addition to 29 female prisoners), and during the year 2022, the occupation authorities arrested about 7,000 Palestinians throughout the Palestinian territories, including about 882 children and 172 women, of whom 129 are women. From Jerusalem governorate, while the number of administrative detention orders against citizens who have not been charged with any charges reached 850.

The policy of the occupation forces did not stop demolishing Palestinian-owned buildings and the resulting displacement of residents from their homes throughout the West Bank, as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Territories (OCHA) documented since 2009 that the occupation forces destroyed 9,353 homes or facilities since 2009. 2009, including 1,639 facilities funded by donors, which led to the displacement of 13,641 citizens. The demolitions were 19% in East Jerusalem, 79% in areas classified (C), and about 2% of the demolitions were in areas classified (A) and (B). OCHA documented About 953 facilities were demolished during the year 2022, including 140 facilities funded by donors, which led to the displacement of 1,031 citizens and affected 28,446 citizens, inhabited and uninhabited agricultural and residential facilities represented about 70% of them.

It is noteworthy that the Palestinian people commemorate the Earth Day annually, in which six Palestinian youths were martyred in the 48 lands in response to the occupation’s decision to seize 21 thousand dunums of the lands of Galilee, the Triangle and the Negev, on the thirtieth of March 1976, and this day has become a memory to perpetuate and embody the adherence of the Palestinian people With his land and homeland, and in memory of the martyrs of Earth Day.