{"id":13887,"date":"2013-10-17T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=13887&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:22:12","slug":"drastic-rise-in-construction-in-the-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/drastic-rise-in-construction-in-the-settlements","title":{"rendered":"Drastic Rise in Construction in the Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\"><strong>January-June 2013 \u2013 Summary of the First Half of 2013:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>70% rise in construction in the settlements; 86% without tenders<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The following data is based on Peace Now\u2019s survey of aerial photos and a count of all units that started\/ended to be built in each settlement.<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"><strong>Construction Starts: <\/strong><\/span>70% rise in construction starts compared to the equivalent period last year. 1,708 units (in January-June 2013) 180 of them in illegal outposts, vs. 995 (in January-June 2012).<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"><strong>Units Completed: <\/strong><\/span>The construction of 1,794 housing units ended.<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"><strong>Units Under Construction:<\/strong><\/span> 2,840 housing units were under construction during this period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/settlementwatcheastjerusalem.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/constructionmid2013eng.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13895 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/constructionmap.jpg\" alt=\"constructionmap\" width=\"382\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/constructionmap.jpg 382w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/constructionmap-161x123.jpg 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/constructionmap-330x253.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/settlementwatcheastjerusalem.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/constructionmid2013eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">See Map of the Construction<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The units that started to be built (\u201cConstruction Starts\u201d)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>61% of the construction starts (1,040 units) were in isolated settlements east of the border proposed by the Geneva Initiative; 44% of the construction starts (759 units) were east of the planned route of the separation fence, and only 32% (542 units) were west of the built fence.<\/li>\n<li>180 public buildings (schools, synagogues, kindergartens and so on) started to be built in the settlements (in addition to the 1,708 housing units), as well as 74 industrial or agricultural buildings.<\/li>\n<li>At least 86% of the construction (1,469 units) was carried out without tenders, in settlements where tenders are not required before construction.<br \/>\nThis means that the \u201ctender moratorium\u201d declared by the government until the prisoners release on July 2013 was not a general construction freeze, but only of a small part of the construction in the settlements.<br \/>\nThe two tenders published on July (in addition to those in East Jerusalem) were actually for settlements east of the Geneva Initiative line in the areas where it is hardest to reach a compromise, in Efrat and Ariel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For a summary of the developement in settlements since the Oslo accord &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/the-two-state-solution-is-still-alive-20-years-after-oslo\/?lang=en\">see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Examples of building sites:<\/strong><br \/>\nAriel \u2013 51 housing units<br \/>\nBracha \u2013 88 housing units<br \/>\nGivat Ze\u2019ev \u2013 106 housing units (in the haredi neighborhood)<br \/>\nModi\u2019in Illit \u2013 108 housing units<br \/>\nNili \u2013 100 housing units<br \/>\nNeriah \u2013 42 housing units<br \/>\nEli \u2013 30 housing units<br \/>\nAlei Zahav \u2013 35 housing units<br \/>\nEtz Efraim &#8211; 51 housing units<br \/>\nTekoa \u2013 39 housing units<br \/>\nBeit Arieh \u2013 38 housing units<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13889\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bracha.jpg\" alt=\"Bracha\" width=\"1239\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bracha.jpg 1239w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bracha-161x44.jpg 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bracha-330x91.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1239px) 100vw, 1239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13891\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tkoa.jpg\" alt=\"Tkoa\" width=\"1249\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tkoa.jpg 1249w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tkoa-161x45.jpg 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tkoa-330x92.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1249px) 100vw, 1249px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January-June 2013 \u2013 Summary of the First Half of 2013: 70% rise in construction in the settlements; 86% without tenders The following data is based on Peace Now\u2019s survey of aerial photos and a count of all units that started\/ended to be built in each settlement. Construction Starts: 70% rise in construction starts compared to&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/drastic-rise-in-construction-in-the-settlements\" title=\"Read Drastic Rise in Construction in the Settlements\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2515,2511],"tags":[2523],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lands-en","category-reports-en","tag-construction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13898,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions\/13898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}