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• Did you know that by the end of 1967, there were only 3 settlements in total (concentrated in the West Bank), whereas now, this figure has risen to 195. 18 settlements have been established in Gaza Strip, and 177 in the West Bank (including Jerusalem)?

   

• Did you know that the climax of settlement activity took place during the Likud term from mid. 1976 to mid. 1985. During that period a total of 118 settlements were established?

   

• Did you know that The Israeli Inter-Ministerial Committee to Examine the Rate of Development for Jerusalem determined that a demographic balance of Jews and Arabs had to be maintained: 73.5% Jews and 26.5% Palestinians. (this is the favorable Israeli situation…)?

   

• Did you know that since the Oslo Accords were signed (September 1993), more than 150 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem have been demolished?

   

• Did you know that an average of 50 Palestinian homes are demolished every year in Jerusalem (since 1967)?

   

• Did you know that more than 70% of Palestinians live below the poverty line (avg. $2/day)?

   

• Did you know that more than 4,000,000 m² of cultivated Palestinian land has been deliberately destroyed by Israel since the outbreak of the Intifada in late September 2000?

   

• Did you know that there are 4.6 million Palestinian refugees in the world today, as a result of the 1948 and 1967 Israeli occupation of Palestine?

   

• Did you know that many Palestinian women detainees were held in solitary confinement, had to give birth in their prison cells, tortured verbally, physically, emotionally and sexually abused and threatened?

   

• Did you know that Israel remains the only state that has legislated the use of torture? No country other than Israel has “legally” allowed the use of torture in its “security” procedures?

   

• Did you know that Palestine suffers from a dual problem of both landmines and UXO?

   

• Did you know that after decades of war and on-going military occupation, Palestinians in the OPT have been left with thousands of antipersonnel and antitank landmines, and unexploded munitions remnants on their lands?

   

• Did you know that since 1997, DCI/PS has documented 47 Palestinians injured or killed by landmines or UXO. Of those, 35 were children, with 12 killed and 23 injured?

   

• Did you know that Israeli forces killed an estimated 13,000 Palestinians since 1948? They forcibly evicted 737,166 Palestinians from the homes and land. 503 Palestinian villages were entirely depopulated and destroyed?

   

• Did you know that UN Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted unanimously on November 22nd 1967 after the Arab-Israeli war in June 1967. It calls on Israel to withdraw its military forces to the boundaries prior to that war, thus, to return all Palestinian territories it occupied by force.