4. Israel has established approximately 150 settlements in the West Bank, with a civilian population of 170,000 in East Jerusalem, approximately 180,000 Israelis are resident in the Gaza Strip, 5,500 settlers live in 16 settlements and in the Golan Heights, 15,000 settlers reside in 36 settlements.

A total of five families (30 people) live in the settlement.

At the present time there were already 400,000 of them living in the 200 existing settlements.

It has found neither settlement policies nor settlements.

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The residents of Sa Nur nearly tripled.30 The larger West Bank settlements also increased in population Modi'in Ilit by 14 per cent, totalling 27,301 Ma'aleh Adumim by 6 per cent, adding 1,800 newcomers to total 28,546.

It has continued to expand the settlements in the West Bank the number of settlers now totals more than 260,000, more than 130,000 of whom live within 11 settlements in and around the city of East Jerusalem, occupied since 1967.

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Some 170,000 settlers live in 56 settlements in the closed zone , that is 76 per cent of the settler population in the West Bank.

9.1 Settlement Figures

A. Settler population

Witnesses stated that all incidents involving settlements and settlers were condoned by the army and that the expansion of settlements and settlers actions were supported and abetted by the occupation troops.

The settlers claimed that they were protesting against an incident in which shots were fired at the Avraham Avinu quarter, adding that it was the third time that shots had been fired at the Jewish quarter over the past week.

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Especially worrisome were continued Israeli statements of intent with regard to the expansion of the existing Jewish settlements, the construction of new ones, and the building of roads to connect those settlements.

Despite such efforts to increase the Golan settler population, by May 1996, settlement leaders were complaining that there was an enormous gap between settlement plans and their actual implementation.46

And we go through numerous remnants of Jewish settlements, Nabatic settlements, Canaanite settlements three , four, five thousand years old.

In the Gaza Strip, 17 Israeli settlements house 8,693 settlers, representing an 11 per cent increase from 2003.24

The land confiscated is used for the building of new settlements, the expansion of existing ones, for stone quarries and for the construction of bypass roads,8 which are used only by settlers and link settlements to each other while bypassing towns and villages inhabited by Palestinians.

Her group called on the authorities to draw up action plans for housing for all.

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Anyone keeping track of settlement activities would notice that the objectives of Jewish settlement have altered over the past two years.

The settlements are inhabited by about 400,000 settlers, an increase of 12,800 in the West Bank during the last year alone.

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Some 12,000 Palestinian labourers work in Israeli settlements 3,500 work in the Erez industrial zone and settlements in the Gaza Strip, and 8,500 in industrial parks and settlements in the West Bank27 not including those working in the settlement communities of East Jerusalem.

Israeli settlements

There are about 5,000 settlers living in the 19 settlements, most of which are clustered around the Gush Katif settlement.

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In fact, activities of expanding settlements have been recorded in more than 30 regions in the already established settlements.

The expansion of settlements is clear to anyone who visits settlement sites.

The subprogramme will also focus on the follow up to the implementation of relevant international agreements, especially those adopted under the Habitat Agenda (Habitat II).

In addition to the expansion of existing settlements, new ones have been or are being established.

One mentioned encouragement by the Karabakh Refugee Committee.

So far this year, there have been an additional 11,000 settlers added to the 400,000 illegal settlers in the occupied territories  a rate of 1,000 additional settlers a month.

Construction projects in some settlements were expected to at least double the settler population.

The Commander stated that the settler was struck by bullets from a weapon wielded by one of the other settlers as they tried to drive off the Palestinians.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs said that 21 out of 44 existing Israeli settlements were to be expanded and 300 Jewish families would be encouraged to settle in the occupied Golan, in the wake of 700 families that had already established themselves in the area during the previous four years.

The area along the Arax river southwest from the Jebrail region is sparsely populated, although there was evidence of organized seasonal farming and sporadic homesteading.

In the West Bank settlement of Shiloh , a settler fired at a group of Palestinians, killing four and wounding two others.

(c) They have other legitimate reasons.

Over 20,000 people fled the front line areas, temporarily settling in 22 sites.

That new settlement is planned to accommodate 55,000 settlers in 13,500 housing units.25 The World Zionist Organization is also supporting new settlement construction in the Jordan Valley.26

It clearly affirmed what Armenia had been stating all along first, that overall settlement is quite limited and, secondly, that there is no clear organized resettlement, no non voluntary resettlement and no recruitment.