Being Dense About Gaza

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The Coming Million in Yesha/Judea and Samaria

Reported:

The number of Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria increased by 4.3 percent in 2011, an Interior Ministry census report has shown. In 2010, there were 327,712 Jews living in these areas; in 2011 the number of residents increased by 14,702 people to 342,414. These numbers do not include the approximately 300,000 Jews who live in neighborhoods in north and east Jerusalem.

In addition, the census reports that about 60,000 Jews study at educational institutions located in Judea and Samaria...The conclusion from the census data is that about 722,000 Jews are living beyond the Green Line, including in the Golan Heights. The data also clearly shows a significant Jewish population increase in hilltop settlements outposts.

In the major settlement blocs the census data revealed that the most growth was recorded at 11% in east Gush Etzion [Etzion bloc], from 3,963 in 2010 to 4,449 in 2011...

The million figure of Jews is coming up.

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How Big Is Gaza? And Its Population Is...?

Gaza, according to Wikipedia is about 41 kilometers (25 miles) long, and between 6 and 12 kilometers (4–7.5 miles) wide, with a total area of 360 square kilometers (139 square miles). Population: 1,500,202 (July 2008 est., CIA World Factbook).

Now, for fun, what's your estimate of the population within the Gaza outline in any of the two maps below (there are more if you want to continue playing) that would put the lie to the Arab claim of Gaza being the nmost densely populated location on earth (which I've dealt with here):





Found here at Martin Kramer's SandBox and credited to this source.

P.S.

Dr Abdel R. Omran, who teaches at the University of Maryland and George Washington University, states in his booklet, 'The Middle East Population Puzzle', that "Middle Eastern culture, religion and politics tend to encourage large families."

"But despair, coupled with no resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has also led many Gazans, and the women in particular, to a state of apathy in regard to birth control," says Zayan.

"I've asked some women, with unemployed husbands, who have eight children but are pregnant yet again, why they keep having more children. They just shrug their shoulders and ask, 'What does it matter, we have no future', or tell me, 'God will provide'."

The current conflict has also disempowered women from asserting themselves in regard to their reproductive rights as they are low down in the pecking order in a society that is being torn apart at the seams, said Zayan.

Important Data

From here:-

The canard that Gaza is the most crowded place on earth continues to circulate. Some people will tell you that Gaza is the most crowded place on earth. Actually, Tel Aviv is much more densely populated than Gaza.

The first modern Hebrew city, not quite 100 years old, has already managed to cram almost 400,000 residents into its 51.8 square kilometers. This makes Tel Aviv more densely populated than Hong Kong or Singapore, which in turn are much more crowded than Gaza.

The UK politician George Galloway wrote in The Glasgow Record last month that the Gaza Strip is "the most densely populated piece of earth on the planet." Galloway wrote that 1.5 million Palestinians live there.

Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian journalist currently teaching at Princeton, wrote March 26 that Gaza is "one of the most densely populated places on earth, with 3,823 people per square kilometre." Kuttab's figure is in line with recent Gaza population estimates of 1.4 million.

If Galloway's estimate of 1.5 million Gaza population is correct, this is almost 4,200 people per square kilometer. The Central Intelligence Agency projects that the Gaza population will reach 1,537,269 in July. This would bring the density to 4,270 people per square kilometer.

Both Singapore and Hong Kong have more than 6,000 people per square kilometer. Tel Aviv has more than 7,000 people per square kilometer. If you count the suburbs of Tel Aviv [what we cal Gush Dan], the metropolitan area with its population of 2.3 million has a density of more than 5,000 people per square kilometer, which is considerably more crowded than the Gaza Strip as reckoned by Galloway or Kuttab or the CIA.

Selected estimates of population density:

Mumbai
27,209 people/sq km

Kolkata
24,000 people/sq km

Tel Aviv
7,445 people/sq km
(385,000 people, 51.8 sq km)

Hong Kong
6,352 people/sq km

Singapore
6,252 people/sq km

London
5,100 people/sq km

Tel Aviv metro area including suburbs
5,050 people/sq km
(2.3 million people, 453 sq km)

Moscow
4,900 people/sq km

Tokyo/Yokahama
4,750 people/sq km

Warsaw
4,300 people/sq km

Gaza Strip per CIA projection
4,270 people/sq km
(1,537,269 population July 2008, 360 sq km)

Gaza Strip per George Galloway
4,167 people/sq km
(1.5 million people, 360 sq km)

Gaza Strip per Daoud Kuttab
3,822 people/sq km

The numbers for London, Tel Aviv metro area, Moscow, Tokyo/Yokohama and Warsaw are from the City Mayors site.