RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated in a press release about Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory that the number of settlers in the West Bank had doubled 40 times in four decades.
Data indicate that the number of settlers in the West Bank in 2011 was 536932 compared to 523939 in 2010 with a growth rate of 1.3%.
The number of settlements in the West Bank totaled 144 the majority of them in Jerusalem governorate with 26 settlements out of which 16 have been annexed by Israel the report revealed.
The report pointed out that settlers in the West Bank increased their numbers by more than 40 times during the period 1972-2011 where most of the settlers (267643) concentrate in Jerusalem governorate about 50% of the total settlers in the West Bank followed by Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate (100501 settlers) then Bethlehem governorate (59.414 settlers) then Salfit governorate (34.946 settlers) while 1489 settlers are in Tubas governorate.
