FIFTY YEARS OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION IN NUMBERS
Submitted by christian on Tue, 05/15/2018 - 14:55
Source: Amnesty International
- 60% of West Bank is under full Israeli control.
- More than 100,000 hectares of Palestinian land has been appropriated for settlement use.
- 50,000 homes and structures have been demolished by Israel.
- 600,000 + Israeli settlers live on occupied Palestinian land.
- Before 2005, 9,000 + Israeli settlers had lived in Gaza.
- 4.9 million Palestinians face daily restrictions on their movement.
- Zero criminal investigations into 1,000 + torture complaints.
- Thousands of military orders are imposed by Israel since 1967 imposing restrictive measures against Palestinians.
- Up to 99% of cases heard by Israeli military courts in West Bank end in convinction.
- Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of settlement products are exported each year.
- Since 1987, more than 10,200 Palestinians have been killed, often unlawfully. In the same period, more than 1,400 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.
- Average Israeli consumption of water is at least four times that of Palestinians across the Occupied Territories.
- 10 year of air, land and sea blockade of Gaza Strip where more than 2 million people are trapped. The United Nations believes Gaza will become unhabitable by 2020.
- 96% of water in Gaza is contaminated and unfit for consumption.
- Unemployment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was 27% in 2016 compared to 12% in 1999.
Key violations resulting from Israel's occupation
- Illegal settlement construction and expansion
- Evictions and home demolitions
- Forced displacement and forcible transfer
- Restrictions on movement and collective punishment
- Expropriations of natural resources
- Restrictions on the right to family life and livelihood
- Arbitrary arrests, administrative detention and unfair trials
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- Unlawful killings
- Restrictions on free expression, association and assembly.
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