tricity and water, in order to facilitate their control over them and prepare the way for curtailment of their activities and their future elimination. Electricity and water projects in the West Bank are executed jointly by the Arab citizens of the region and the occupying authorities on a proportional basis. The occupying authorities then link those projects to Israeli settlements, without the citizens· par­ ticipation. (b) They seek to create in the occupied territories two distinct situations, the one characterized by the economic and psychological constraints to which the Arab citizens, the Arab labour force and the Arab production enterprises are exposed, and the other by economic and moral incentives for ,sraeli settlers, consisting of settlement, cheap land in the occupied territories, easy communications and economic subsidies and grants, for the purpose of encouraging Zionist investors to set up their production projects in the Arab occupied territories. The West Bank is regarded as a Class A devel­ opment area, which gives it priority with regard to loans, tax exemptions and cheap labour. (c) They seek also to encourage the expulsion of the Arab in­ habitants from their land and install Israeli settlers in their stead, in accordance with Israeli plans. 3. ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS Cmifisrntio11 of lane/ During the last quarter of 1982, the Israeli authorities confiscated 9,600 dunums of land in the West Bank alone. so that the total land area confiscated by the Israeli authorities from 1%7 to the end of 1982 was 2,026.778 dunums or 36.9 per cent of the total area of the occupied West Bank. Nell' settlements As a result cf the political situation in the region during the last quarter of 1982 (and in Israel. in particular). no new settlements were established in the occupied territories, except for one. named 
**Analysis**
The text appears to discuss the Israeli occupation's policies and actions in the West Bank, focusing on land confiscation, settlement establishment, and economic development. The language used suggests a deliberate attempt to control and manipulate the economy and population of the occupied territories, with the goal of favoring Israeli settlers and investors.

**Category**
Economy, Employment, Humanitarian aid and relief