Over the past five years, four settler farms in the West Bank have taken over Palestinian territory the size of the city of Holon (some 19,000 dunams, or 4,700 acres), or the cities of Bnei Brak (7,300 dunams) and Lod (around 12,000 dunams) combined. Employing systematic violence and terror, the residents of the four outposts, aided by the army, have blocked Palestinian access to land totaling 20,866 dunams, which the Palestinians had used to cultivate crops and graze livestock.
The record is held by Uri’s Farm on the Umm Zuqa preserve in the northern Jordan Valley, which was established in 2016 and prevents Palestinian communities from accessing over 14,000 dunams of land. Next is the outpost of Zvi Bar Yosef from the settlement of Halamish, erected three years ago. It prevents the farmers of Jibiya, Kobar and Umm Safa from accessing 2,500 dunams of their lands. A shepherd’s farm southwest of Samu, established this year, has so far taken over 1,850 dunams belonging to the village of Zanuta. In 2020, Mann Farm was built east of the town of Yatta, taking over 1,537 dunams from nearby villages.
The data refers only to these four individual farms out of some 50 similar outposts created over the past decade, and 150 outposts dating back to the 1990s. The residents of many
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Amira Hass | 14 Nov 2021