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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory Territorial anTERRITORIALd Adminis tANDrativ ADMINISTRATIVEe Division DIVISION oPt of the BethleheOFm GTHEov eBETHLEHEMrnorate GOVERNORATE September 2013 For the purpose of this report we have divided the Bethlehem governorate into three areas: centre-urban, western and eastern. Western Area: CCeenntrter-eU-Urbrabna Anr Aear:ea: Eastern Area: The fertile Western Bethlehem area is the The centre-urban area comprises Bethle- The eastern governorate comprises an governorate's traditional breadbasket. In hem city, Beit Sahur, Beit Jala, and adja- extensive area of desert and semi-desert recent decades, settlement construction cent refugee camps, municipalities and and the Dead Sea. This area is effectively and expansion has reduced the agricul- villages, which form a continuous urban off-limits to Palestinians, because of tural space available for Bethlehem farmers. fabric. It also includes the southern villages Israeli-administered Area C, nature reserves Planned Barrier construction threatens and Beit Fajar, which are separated from and military areas. According to the World to sever this agricultural hinterland from each other and from the urban area in the Bank, a Palestinian Dead Sea hotel industry the urban core to the east. north by large tracOtsld o Cf iItsyraeli-administered “of comparable profitability to Israel, this Area C. would provide annual revenues of some USD 290 million while “the potential incremental value from ...potash, bromine and magnesium has been conservatively New settler agricultural farm estimated at USD 918 million per annum.” 1.6 % within Jerusalem municipal boundary Rachel's Al Walaja Tomb Gilo Battir Har Homa Har Gilo Nu'aman Ayda Ein Fashkhah Camp Al 'Azza Beit Husan Camp Mar Saba Wadi Fukin Jala Beit Sahur Ad Doha Ush Ghurab Duheisa Camp Beitar Illit Al Khadr Artas Nahalin Ovnat College Planned Industrial Nahal Gevaot Zone Al Jab'a Newe Daniyyel Rosh Zurim Khallet Al Louza Efrata Al Ma'sara El'azar Bat Ayin Southern Allon Shevut Villages Teqoa Kefar Ezyon Noqedim Gush Etzion Beit Fajjar Ma'ale Amos (Palestinian Designated) Area A Area B Area C Nature Military Dead 7.5 % 5.5 % 66 % 'Arab ar Rashayida Reserve Area Mitzpe Shalem Sea 19.4 % 0 2 4 8 Kilometers Legend Area A: The Palestinian Authority has security and civil control. Urban areas. Area B: The Palestinian Authority has full civil control and joint security responsibility. Rural communities. Area C: Israel retains security control and jurisdiction over planning and construction. (Approximately 66% of Bethlehem governorate) Settlement Municipal Area Settlement built-up and outer limits Ad Doha Al Khadr Ad Duheisha Camp Wadi Settlement Outposts (digitized from satellite imagery March 2005) Dhahrat Umm Qal'a an Nada Artas Hindaza Closed Military Area (40 % of the governorate and 60 % of Area C) Khallet Hamad Bureid'a Israeli Declared Nature Reserves Khallet al Balluta New Settler agricultural farm Rakhme Beit Ta'mir Under the Wye River Memorandum of 1998, land reserves, were handed over to the Newe Daniyyel Khirbet an Nahla Al 'AsakiraAl Fureidis Palestinian Authority (PA) to be set aside as a Green area/Nature Reserves: however, Khallet al Louza Wadi the PA has not been allowed to utilize this area. Al Beida Rahhal Jannatah (Beit Falouh) Al 'Iqab Dead Sea : Around 90 % of the Palestinian Dead Sea coast falls within Ath Thabra Abu Nujeim Harmala Efrata the Bethlehem governorate Khallet al Haddad El'azar Khallet al Qaranin Al Ma'sara Constructed Barrier Wadi an Nis Khirbet ad Deir Teqoa Planned Barrier, (under construction) If completed as planned, the Barrier will isolate Khallet 'Afana Jurat ash Sham'a 12 % of the total area of the governorate. Marah Ma'alla Source: OCHA, JRC, PA- MOPIC Al Halqum Noqedim HUMANITARIAN BULLETIN 5 OCTOBER 2013.

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