Most Israeli settlements sit on privately owned Palestinian land taken without compensation.

Evidence

Recent reports based on Israeli administration figures by the Israeli anti-occupation group Peace Now on Israeli settlement patterns in the occupied territories reveal that fully 40 percent of the 122 settlements are on land owned privately by Palestinians. Israel has allocated Palestinian land unilaterally to settlements. While only a little more than 10 percent of the land so allocated is actually used for settlements, 90 percent of the settlements spill over onto privately owned Palestinian property appropriated with no due compensation and no resistance from the Israeli state. Fully one-third of settlement spread now lies outside of official Israeli allocations. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 659

Categorization

• SHARE: Send to anyone tracking Israeli settlement data or territorial-conflict legal analysis — the Peace Now figures on private Palestinian land are specific and actionable.