Illegal Settlement Expansion-Settlement Watch Team – March 2009 PEACE NOW ,ISRAEL
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 01:48PM The Ministry of Construction and Housing is planning to construct at least
73,300 housing units in the West Bank
An examination of the data available on the Israeli government Website
(http://www.govmap.gov.il/) that contains maps and information from the
Ministry of Housing, reveals that in plans for the West Bank at least
15,000 housing units have already been approved, and plans for an
additional 58,000 housing units are yet to be approved.
.This Peace Now report is based on this data published on the official
government website.
However the plans published are only a small part of the overall housing
plans for the Occupied Territories, there are other thousands of housing
units in plans of the local authorities, private initiators and other
public authorities, all of which we are in the process of collating.
Main findings:
• Total number of housing units in the published plans – 73,302, out of
which, 5,722 are in East Jerusalem
• Total number of housing units in approved plans – 15,156, approx. 8,950
of which have already been built.
• Total number of housing units in planning stages – 58,146.
• If all the plans are realized, the number of settlers in the Territories
will be doubled (an addition of approx. 300,000 persons, based upon an
average of 4 persons in each housing unit).
• In Gush Etzion (Bethlehem area) 17,000 housing units are planned in
areas outside the existing settlements.
• At least six (6) outposts are included in the Ministry of Housing plans
(Magen Dan, Givat Hadagan, Givat Hatamar, Bnei Adam, Bat Ayin West, Hill
26).
• There are plans for huge construction to double the size of some
settlements, including: Beitar Illit, Ariel, Givat Ze’ev, Maaleh Adumim,
Efrat and Geva Binyamin.
• Approx. 19,000 housing units are planned in settlements that are beyond
the constructed path of the Fence (Kiryat Arba, Karnei Shomron, Ariel,
Geva Binyamin, Immanuel, Revava).
• The plans in the settlements constitute 22% of the total housing units
that are in planning stages in the Ministry of Housing.