Israeli settlement
For other uses, see Israeli settlement (disambiguation). The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. Use the lead layout guide to ensure the section follows Wikipedia's norms and to be inclusive of all essential details. ( October 2017 ) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Map of Israeli settlements (magenta) in the West Bank in 2014 CIA remote sensing map of Greater Jerusalem, showing Israeli settlements, Palestinian refugee camps, fences, walls, etc. in May 2006. Map of the Golan Heights with Israeli settlements in 1992. Israeli settlements are civilian communities [i] inhabited by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively of Jewish ethnicity, [1] [2] built predominantly on lands within the Palestinian territories, which Israel has militarily occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War, [3] and partly on lands considered Syrian territory also militarily occupied by Israe...