The Land Research Center of the Arab Studies Association reported that the Israeli occupation confiscated about 2.3 million dunums of the occupied West Bank’s lands for the sake of their settlement project.

In the 47th anniversary of Land Day, the center, ina statement, stated that the number of settlements and outposts established by the occupation reached (572), which  are inhabited by 850,000 Jewish settlers. Moreover, the center explained that the settlers uprooted more than two million olive trees, and more than (12,350) Palestinian houses were demolished in the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967.

Furthermore, the center pointed out that the villages and cities of the Palestinian interior were not spared from the demolition, as the village of Al-Araqib was demolished (214) times. Israeli occupation forces drained the Hula Lake, and plundered the sources of the Jordan River, and they are now drying up the Dead Sea.