BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee

From the Nakba to the Present Day – Ongoing Displacement
Palestinians inside Israel had lost approximately 70% of their land by 1980 due to expropriation (based on a survey of 18 Palestinian
villages whose land base decreased from 620,350 dunums in 1947 to 188,930 dunums by 1980). Under the land acquisition law of
1953, 1,250,000 dunums of land were expropriated. Lustick, Ian, Arabs in the Jewish State. University of Texas Press, 1980.
“Palestinians that remained [in Israel] lost about 40–60% of the land they possessed.” Citing Kark and Golan in Israel: The First Decade
of Independence, I. S. Troen and N. Lucas (eds.), Syracuse, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995, in Kedar, Alexander, “On
the Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States: Notes Towards a Research Agenda,” Current Legal Issues 5, 2002, pp. 401–441.
Close to 50,000 dunums have been confiscated and about 300,000 dunums are isolated by the Wall. PCBS, “Special Report on the
59 th Anniversary of the Nakba,” Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 10 May 2006, p. 6.
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