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Archive for December 9, 2009

Primer | the Israeli settlements

Cartoonist: 'Abdullah Darqawi

Cartoonist: 'Abdullah Darqawi Source: Al-Dustour (Jordan)

As of May 2009, there were 280,000 Israelis living in 121 settlements in the West Bank, and 190,000 in East Jerusalem. Settlements range in their character from farming communities to suburbs to frontier villages, and, in the case of East Jerusalem, city neighborhoods.

The United Nations and other major international bodies consider the settlements a violation of international law, though this is disputed by Israel and some legal scholars.

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