An-Najah News - The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has confirmed, Israel now occupies at least 85 per cent of the total area of historic Palestine, 
 It pointed out that Jewish migrants from overseas now account for a third of the population of the colonial-settler state.

The Palestinians control less than 15 per cent under strict Israeli restrictions. According to the report, there were 13 million Palestinians by the end of 2019. Of these, 5 million are in the occupied Palestinian territories while 1,597,000 live in land occupied since 1948 and are citizens of Israel. Around 6 million Palestinians live in other Arab countries, with 727,000 in the wider diaspora around the world.

The report explained that the Israeli Occupation authorities have used the Oslo division of the Palestinian West Bank into areas A, B and C in order to strengthen their control over the territory. Area C, which makes up 76 per cent of the occupied land, is under Israel’s security and administrative control.

Israel also imposes restrictions or prevents Palestinians from using certain roads in the occupied West Bank in order to give free access to Israeli settlers whose presence in the territory is illegal under international law.