PCBS: Over 500,000 Settlers in West Bank in 2010

RAMALLAH, August 3, 2011 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Wednesday said the number of settlements in the West Bank totaled 144 with 518,974 settlers in 2010.

In a press release, PCBS said most of the settlers (262,493) live in the Jerusalem area, with the majority of settlements (26) in that area.

In 2010, the number of urban Jewish settlements reached 49 in the West Bank, 22 of them in Jerusalem. Settlers of this type of settlement represent 88.5% of total settlers in the West Bank, it said.

The PCBS said that in 2010 there were 95 rural Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including 51 of them classified as communal settlements with a population of 44,243 settlers, in addition to 17 moshav settlements with a population of 3,936 settlers.

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