Zionist Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Dr. Jad Isaac, director general of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ), began his remarks by reminding listeners that the current boundaries of the West Bank and Gaza represent only 22 percent of the British Mandate of Palestine (the land over which the British received a mandate from the League of Nations in 1922). Dr. Isaac then showed a map depicting the location of settlements (hereafter called colonies) built on Palestinian land since 1967.

Since its victory in the Six-Day War, when it captured and occupied the West Bank and Gaza, Israel has taken control of 38 percent of ...

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