Press Conference of farmer leaders begins.

Farmer leaders on 26th January’s tractor march.
Tomorrow Supreme Court will take some decision.
We will consider the decision.
We have lost more than 121 farmers during protests.
People from Haryana are collecting soil and ghee from Villages.
Kisan will celebrate Republic day with Jawan.
This parade will be taken out on outer ring road.
It will be peaceful.
No weapon and inflammatory speech won’t be allowed.
We won’t disturb Republic day parade on Rajpath.
We won’t occupy any govt office or building.
Indian National flag and flames of farmers union will be put on top of vehicles.
Lakhs of farmers are preparing for parade.
We will show our countrymen that nation’s farmers are in danger.
But no one is listening to them.
Farmer leaders invited commoners to come and see the farmers parade.
They called Kisan parade entire nation’s parade.
Jan ki Baat will work over Mann ki Baat.
Women in villages will pray in Temples, Gurudwaras and Mosques and pay tribute to the shahheds of farmer struggle.
A tractor rally will be organized in Rajasthan’s district.
Farmer leaders appealed more people to join the rally.

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Reporters, pundits, activists. Before you echo the notion that Palestinians are being "corralled into small, crowded enclaves", which is in vogue in some circles, here are some facts that you won't find in @btselem's new position paper. Read and decide for yourself.

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Starting with the West Bank, specifically Area C from which allegedly Palestinians are being systematically pushed into the enclaves of Areas A and B, and replaced by Jewish settlers. If so, we should've seen the demographic balance in Area C shift in the Jews' favor. Has it? /2

Well, there's no evidence for that, certainly none in the paper. Latest UN estimate is ~ 300k Palestinians in Area C in 2013, probably >3 times their number in 1995 when the area was delineated. Jewish population growth in the same area & period was slower or similar at 2.6%./3

While good population stats for Area C are unavailable, there are construction surveys based on aerial photos. Do they support Btselem's claim? Quite the contrary. At least one shows that in recent yrs the total Palestinian residential area expanded more than the Jewish one./4


The same analysis by @RegavimIsrael found that the number of Palestinian structures in Area C increased by 28,600 during 2009-2019, nearly doubling in one decade, far more than the 18,600 built in Jewish settlements in that period, according to official statistics. /5

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