Israeli Statistics Do Not
Give
Real
Number
of
Palestinians in Jerusalem
The Israeli Municipal Water Association, Gihon, has said that
official Israeli statistics did not give the real number of
Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem, Quds Press
reported yesterday.
According to Quds Press, the Israeli daily Haaretz wrote on
Thursday that Gihon is to publish data about the numbers of
Arab and Jewish residents in East Jerusalem which differs to
the numbers published by the Israeli Central Bureau of
Statistics.
Israeli official statistics show that there are 542,000 Jews
living in Jerusalem, to a total of 63 per cent of the
population, as compared to 324,000 Palestinians.
Gihon, which has conducted a survey recently, said that this
number does not include tens of thousands of Palestinians
living inside the borders of the city.
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Meanwhile, Haaretz reported experts saying that the number of
Jews in the city is less than the number given by the Israeli
government, noting that it is in fact only 59 per cent.
Haaretz said that the problem with the Palestinians is that
there is a large number of them living in the Shu’fat refugee
camp and the Kafr Aqab neighborhood, which were separated from
the city by the Israeli separation wall.
The Israeli daily said that these are highly condensed areas,
and that they attract large numbers of Palestinians due to
cheap housing prices.
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According to the official Israeli statistics, around 60,000
Palestinians live in Shu’fat and Kafr Aqab, while the
unofficial number is around 140,000.
Haaretz cited Maya Hoshen from the Al-Quds Institute said that
the number of Palestinians living in Jerusalem is more than
900,000 or 41 per cent.
Israel is fearful of Arabs in Jerusalem outnumbering Jewish
residents due to political considerations regarding the Arab
nature of the holy city, and pressures Palestinians to leave
the city while encouraging Jews to move to it.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)