however, Israeli planning authorities have only designated 15 percent of the land for Palestinian residence, with 2.6% of this land zoned for public buildings,103 while Palestinians represent 60% of the population in East Jerusalem today. Another tool used by Israel is the application of the Absentee Property Law to Palestinian owners who are living in the West Bank and are therefore clearly not “absent.” This law allows Israel to increase Jewish presence in east Jerusalem by placing settlers in properties belonging to “absentees”.104 According to one estimate for Palestine 1948 and east Jerusalem together, 60 percent of the fertile land belonging to Palestinian refugees was confiscated under the Absentee Property Law.105 The United Nations Human Rights Council, in investigating Israeli colonies in the oPt, confirmed the Klugman Report’s finding that the Custodian of Absentee Property was “an institution to dispossess Palestinians of their land and property.”106 As a result of this discriminatory set of legislation, 38 percent of Palestinian land in east Jerusalem was confiscated between 1967 and 2017.107 C. Restrictions on use and access through urban planning discriminatory policies That which was not confiscated by force and by Israeli discriminatory legislation is controlled by a complex zoning and planning system (1), used as a justification for the demolition of structures (2) allegedly violating these urban policies, but 103 Ir Amim and Bimkom, Deliberately Planned: A policy to thwart planning in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem, 2017, Available at: https://ir-amim.org.il/sites/default/ files/Deliberately%20Planned.pdf 104 Ir Amim, Absentees against their will: Property expropriation in East Jerusalem under the Absentee Property Law, 2010, 2, Available at: https://ir-amim.org.il/sites/default/files/ Absentees_against_their_will.pdf [Hereinafter: Ir Amin, Absentees against their will]. 105 Jewish News, “Why we need to speak about the Absentee Property Law”, 2020, Accessed 15 February 2022, Available at: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-weneed-to-speak-about-the-absentee-property-law/ 106 UN Human Rights Council, Report of the independent international fact finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rightsof the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. (A/HRC/22/63), 2013, 32. 107 Amnesty International Report, Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians, 131. 26