This map is illustrating reported Israeli plans, as of November 2009, to
expand settlements in East Jerusalem by 14,123 housing units by 2015
and 2020. (The map does not include the 1600 new units to be built in
the settlement of Ramat Shlomo announced during the recent visit of
Vice President Biden.)
The map also shows existing Israeli settlements built since
Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967 within the expanded
boundaries Israel drew to increase the area of East Jerusalem by 72
square kilometers.
As of 2007 the Jewish settler population of East Jerusalem was 189,708 The Palestinian population was over 200,000.
If completed the 14,123 planned new units reported in November and
the recently announced 1600 new units for Ramat Shlomo would
potentially house, at an estimated occupancy of 8 persons per unit,
about 125,780 settlers by 2020.
This map originally appeared in the Foundation’s November-December edition of the Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories
The United States regards all territory taken by Israel in the
1967 war as "occupied," including East Jerusalem. The U.S. does not
recognize these areas as part of Israel, and has, like the rest of the
world, always opposed settlements and believes that the final status of
East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights must be
resolved through negotiations.