Two weeks ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution that expressed many of Kerry's concerns, reaffirming that the settlements constitute a "flagrant violation" of international law, and that the trends on the ground are "steadily eroding the two-State solution and entrenching a one-State reality".
These results refute the claim that most fires originate in oil palm concessions, and that fires escaping from oil palm concessions and settlements constitute a major proportion of fires in this study region.
Agriculture production and eco-systemic functions interact in open spaces with other functions such as recreational activities assisted by a network of cycling and pedestrian paths that interacts in its turn with functions performed by residential, commercial and productive settlements, constituting a very important part of the local economy, as well as with the transport networks.
For Palestinians, settlements constitute the ultimate red line, particularly in Hebron.
But the B'Tselem human rights organization conclusively showed as far back as 2002 that while the built-up areas of the settlements constitute only 1.7% of the land in the West Bank, the municipal boundaries are over three times as large: 6.8%.
Human settlements constitute a "household of households".
Gwen's sister, Margot, is "an amusingly bitter" ex-wife whose husband, a gynecologist with a specialty in fertility issues ("more like a one-man sex ring"), is in jail for fraud; her alimony settlement, which constitutes her life savings, has been wiped out in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
During the analysis period (1964 2014), cultivated and rural settlement land constituted the largest coverage in the study area.
Therefore, monitoring approaches with a regional perspective become more and more relevant, as polycentric, suburban settlement structures constitute the spatial but also institutional context of urban containment policies.
Both camps are characterised by tented accommodation due to the fear that more solid structures would encourage permanent settlement in what constitutes the most peripheral and unforgiving of locations.
