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Wed 29 Mar 2023 6:02 pm - Jerusalem Time

Land Research Center: 2.3 million dunums seized in the West Bank

The Land Research Center of the Arab Studies Association said that the Zionist movement has completed the confiscation of about 2.3 million dunums of West Bank land for the benefit of their settlement project.


In a statement on the occasion of the forty-seventh anniversary of Land Day, the center stated that the number of settlements and outposts established by the occupation, despite international legitimacy and its decisions, amounted to about (572), and they are inhabited by about 850,000 Jewish settlers, who uprooted more than two million perennial olive trees that testified to Arabism and Palestinians. This land, and demolished more than (12,350) Palestinian homes in the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967.


The villages and cities of the Palestinian interior were not spared from the demolition, as the village of Al-Araqib was demolished 214 times, and Al-Hula Lake was drained.
They plundered the sources of the Jordan River, and are now drying up the Dead Sea in an unprecedented defiance of all the international community's charters. As the statement said.

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Land Research Center: 2.3 million dunums seized in the West Bank