FIGURES SHOW 79,000 ISRAELIS LEFT OCCUPIED TERRITORIES IN 2024, OUTNUMBERING NEWCOMERS

Thu 25 September 2025:

Around 79,000 Israelis left the occupied territories last year, a figure significantly up from a year earlier, amid rising regional tensions over Tel Aviv’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), “Israel’s population” reached around 10.148 million people, with a growth rate of 1.0%.

Of this figure, roughly 7.758 million are Jews (78.5 percent), about 2.13 million are Arabs (21.5 percent), and around 260,000 are foreign nationals.

The count also includes some 400,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 and unilaterally annexed in 1980 — a move not recognized by the United nations.

The bureau said approximately 179,000 children were born in the Israeli occupied territories in 2024, while around 50,000 people died.

It added about 25,000 new immigrants arrived in the Israeli occupied territories and 5,000 others entered under the family reunification program.

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In addition, nearly 21,000 Israelis who had previously emigrated returned to the occupied territories, while some 79,000 left the region.

In 2023, around 55,300 Israelis emigrated, while about 27,000 returned or moved to the occupied territories, according to official figures.

Tensions have grown inside Israel and with neighboring countries over Tel Aviv’s ongoing war on the besieged and bombarded enclave, where more than 65,000 people have been killed since October 2023.

Israel also launched a war against Iran in June, near-daily strikes in Lebanon and Syria, and military raids in the occupied West Bank.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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