2023

ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS

The settlements have created a one-state

reality in Israel, wherein Israelis have rights
and Palestinians don’t. This oppressive
system of control must be stopped. It’s time
for two states for two nations.

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14% HOW DO
Settlers
SETTLEMENTS
HINDER PEACE?
86% Nablus

Palestinians Qalqiliya

Number of settlers Ariel

465,400
vs. number of Palestinians
in the West Bank 20 km

2,814,000 Ariel
Ariel is located deep in the
West Bank, 20 kilometers
4.9% from the Green Line. Within
Settlers the framework of a two-state
solution, it would not only
block potential Palestinian
development in the area, but
95.1% would also become an isolated
Israeli town in the heart of a
Remaining Palestinian state.
Israelis

Number of settlers
465,400
Total Israeli population
9,453,000
Data from Israeli & Palestinian CBS, 2021

The E1 Plan
A plan to build thousands of
housing units near Ma´aleh
Adumim that represents a fatal
blow to the two-state solution.
Construction in E1 will break
the north-south contiguity
of Palestinian territory and
prevent the development of
the Palestinian metropolitan
area between Ramallah, East
±
000,200:1

Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

THE POTENTIAL BORDER
ACCORDING TO THE
GENEVA INITIATIVE Gilo
Har Homa

A mutually-agreed border based

Battir

on 1967 lines with settlement

Hussan
Bethlehem

blocs in Israel and land swaps

Beitar Illit

Nahalin Nahla
"E2"

Future Palestinian State

(Givat Eitam)

Efrat

Lands annexed to Israel

Lands annexed to Palestine
Tqoa
Surif

EACH NEW HOME BUILT

Beit Fajjar
Beit Umar

IN THE SETTLEMENTS
MAKES DISENGAGEMENT
Efrat and a-Nahla
HARDER AND MORE (Givat Eitam)
Efrat is located south of
PAINFUL Bethlehem and east of Route
60, the sole major highway
ONLY A TWO-STATE between Bethlehem and the
SOLUTION ENSURES southern West Bank. The plan
to build thousands of housing
ISRAEL’S FUTURE AS
units in a-Nahla (called
A JEWISH AND Givat Eitam by settlers),
DEMOCRATIC STATE effectively doubling Efrat in
size, will block any potential
for Palestinian development
south of Bethlehem. Israel’s
annexation of Efrat and
a-Nahla would “sever”
Route 60, disconnecting the
southern West Bank from
Bethlehem and beyond.

LAND FOR JEWS ONLY

state land in
the west bank
99.76%
1,400,000
dunams
of state land allocated
in the west bank
went to jews

674,459
dunams
0.24%
of state land allocated
in the west bank
went to palestinians

1,625
dunams

this is how the state discriminates against palestinians in the west bank – israel, which has
controlled the land for over 50 years now, allocates land virtually exclusively for the settlement
enterprise, while strenuously avoiding allocations to palestinians. land is one of the most precious
public resources. purposely allocating land to just one people at the expense of another in the same
territory and under the same administration, that is one the distinct characteristics of apartheid. Map: shelter_expanse | Graphics: Einhar Design
EAST JERUSALEM
Jerusalem Population (East and West Jerusalem) Jerusalem’s Municipal Budget Government-initiated construction* in
East Jerusalem, 1967-present
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61% Palestinian

2023
Population Israelis
Jewish
Population 87%
Jewish
neighborhoods

The path to resolving the conflict runs

1%
Palestinians

through a solution for Jerusalem: two Jewish Palestinian Investment Investment Jewish Palestinian
capitals for two nations Population Population in Jewish in Palestinian neighborhoods neighborhoods
neighborhoods neighborhoods 57,000 600 Housing units
584,352 366,797
NIS 3.9 Billion NIS 591 Million Housing units
Israeli CBS data from late 2020 Data from Ir Amim’s analysis of the 2013 Municipal Budget As opposed to privately-initiated construction, based on an
assessment by Peace Now

Pre-1967 Jerusalem Post-1967 Jerusalem

Jerusalem under Jordan A new border was drawn (visible above,

Approx. 6 dunams | Approx. 9,000 Palestinians in red) that annexed an additional 70,000
dunams of the West Bank. This area included
Jerusalem under Israel East Jerusalem as well as 28 surrounding
Approx. 38,000 dunams | Approx. 150,000 Jews villages, home to 70,000 Palestinians that
received a resident status, and not citizenship

East Jerusalem since 1967 The Geneva Initiative’s Solution

for Jerusalem

Israel expropriated roughly 30% of the land In the map: the potential border between the two capitals
as suggested by the Geneva Initiative
it annexed to Jerusalem, on which it built 12
Israeli neighborhoods. This government initiative Despite the complex reality in Jerusalem, achieving
aimed to isolate East Jerusalem from the West two states for two nations remains possible. This
Bank, preventing territorial contiguity and the solution is based on the establishment of two
establishment of East Jerusalem as the future capitals in Jerusalem: Jewish neighborhoods will
capital of Palestine. Today, approximately remain part of Israel’s capital, whereas Palestinian
233,700 Israelis live in Jewish neighborhoods neighborhoods will become the capital of
of East Jerusalem, whereas approximately Palestine. The Old City and holy sites will be
361,700 Palestinians live in Palestinian administered through a special arrangement that
neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Jerusalem ensures freedom of access and worship for all in
effectively remains a divided city wherein Jews holy sites.
and Palestinians live apart from one another.