The map highlights the scale of Israel’s annexation strategy in the occupied West Bank. Today, approximately 740,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the OPT, including 240,000 in East Jerusalem. Israel has accelerated settlement expansion and road construction to consolidate control, fragment Palestinian territorial contiguity, and advance unilateral annexation measures. Overall, more than 47 percent of the West Bank is threatened by annexation: 28.5 percent is restricted by Israeli military control of the Jordan Valley, 9 percent lies West of the Annexation Wall, and 9.5 percent is under direct Israeli settlement control. This leaves Palestinians with only 53 percent of the West Bank, undermining prospects for a viable contiguous Palestinian state.
