Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories

The fortieth anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the territories conquered in June, 1967 is an opportunity for reflection and taking stock. The Jewish state has ruled the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights for forty of the almost sixty years of its modern existence.

For sixteen years, the Settlement Report has published a unique record of the advance of the settlement project in the occupied territories since Israel’s conquest in the 1967 war.

The most popular of Labor’s settlements was established in April 1968, without government authorization. On 10 April about eight religious Jews rented a hotel in Hebron to celebrate Passover. After the holiday ended, some of them remained and declared their intention to settle permanently in the Palestinian city of 40,000.

“The al-Birah municipality in the West Bank today launched a campaign to confront the Israeli occupation forces’ confiscation of the city’s lands, the colonialist expansion in the city, and the issuance of new orders to confiscate hundreds of agricultural dunums of land east of the city.