RAMALLAH, March 23 (JMCC) - Israel has spent $17 billion on constructing settlement infrastructure, a new study has found.
Using satellite imagery and other study methods, the Macro Center for
Political Economics has sketched the economic cost of the
settlements in
the occupied
West Bank, reports
Haaretz.
Macro's
economists estimated that private homes in the settlements are worth a
total of $9 billion, apartments are worth $4.5 billion, roads are worth
$1.7 billion, and public institutions, synagogues and bathhouses
combined are worth $0.5 billion.
Read the story at
Haaretz...