west bank jewish numbers up 34 in 2017
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West Bank Jewish numbers up 3.4% in 2017

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Israeli settlement of Qedar shows the West Bank Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.
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The Jewish population of the Israeli-occupied West Bank grew by 3.4 percent to 435,708 in 2017, the main organisation representing the settlers said on Tuesday.

The figures, released by the Yesha Council, exclude the estimated 200,000 Israelis living in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem.

The overall number of Israeli citizens has been growing by an average of two percent annually.

A statement by the council welcomed the latest growth figures while lamenting what it called a "silent freeze" in construction of settler homes.

"The government announces construction in Judaea and Samaria but we do not see the results on the ground," it said, using the Hebrew biblical term for the West Bank.

On January 11 authorities approved more than 1,100 new West Bank homes for Israelis, settlement watchdog Peace Now said.

That followed approval of 6,742 settler building projects last year, the NGO said, the highest figure since 2013.

Israel faced sharp criticism from the administration of former US president Barack Obama over settlement construction.

But that has not been the case under his successor Donald Trump, and Israeli officials have sought to take advantage.

The Yesha Council is made up predominantly of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who account for the overwhelming majority of residents of the two biggest settlements.

They are Modiin Ilit, west of Ramallah, with a population of 70,119, and Beitar Ilit, southwest of Jerusalem, with 56,485 inhabitants.

The ultra-Orthodox comprise about 10 percent of the overall Israeli population.

The third most populated settlement in the West Bank is Maaleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem, with a mixed population of 40,996 secular and religiously observant Jews.

Israeli settlements are seen as illegal under international law and major obstacles to peace as they are built on land the Palestinians see as part of their future state.

Prominent members of Netanyahu's right-wing government openly oppose Palestinian statehood and the settler lobby has strong political influence.

Some 600,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem in often confrontational proximity to nearly three million Palestinians.

Source: AFP

 

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