The Farms Association declared Thursday evening that its member farms control more than 1.1 million dunams in Area C of Judea and Samaria — over a third of the total area — and that it can extend control over an additional roughly 1 million dunams. The declaration follows the publication of a comprehensive farm map earlier today, as reported by The Zioneer.
The Farms Association declared Thursday evening that it could extend its de facto control over an additional roughly 1 million dunams in Area C of Judea and Samaria, building on the more than 1.1 million dunams (over one-third of the zone) it said its member farms already control. The declaration came minutes after The Zioneer reported at 17:37 Jerusalem that the association had published a comprehensive map of its farms.
The map, published by the association earlier Thursday and reported by The Zioneer at 17:37, identifies about 130 farms — 40 established in the last two years — concentrated in the Jordan Valley, eastern Samaria, eastern Binyamin, and the southern Hebron Hills. The earlier statement accompanying the map called for further expansion to achieve broader territorial control. The new declaration sets a specific numerical target.
The Farms Association is a non-governmental body representing agricultural and grazing farms in Judea and Samaria. Its claims of control are based on its own mapping and do not necessarily reflect formal government recognition. As The Zioneer reported, the association's map is the first comprehensive public compilation of its kind.
It remains unclear whether the association's claimed "control" includes land it uses but does not formally own, or whether the 1.1 million dunam figure overlaps with other reported totals. The feasibility of expanding control by an additional 1 million dunams has not been independently verified.
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