Examples of using Dunums in English and their translations into Chinese
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On 30 May, Palestinian Authority officials called for a public strike to protest against the Israeli Government's decision to add 12,000 dunums(3,000 acres) to the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement.
On 4 April, an official report published by the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Information indicated that 375 dunums of agricultural land had been seized by Israel in March throughout the Palestinian Territories.
Then, on 4 December, a group of Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian agricultural land in the northern West Bank, destroying at least 5 dunums of cultivated land.
In the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, Israeli occupying forces issued a notice to confiscate 170 dunums of land and isolate 20,000 dunums of Palestinian agricultural land behind the Wall.
On 17 December, a Palestinian security official stated that a man from the village of Issawiya near Jerusalem had sold 80 dunums of village land to an Israeli party for $10 million.
In addition, 22,168 trees and 8,198.9 dunums of land have been destroyed as of 5 November 2001, amounting to a total destruction of 34,536 trees and 10,832 dunums of land.
There are at present 19 settlements in the Gaza Strip, established on 23,000 dunums of land and surrounded by an additional 23,000 dunums(security zones), bringing the total land area used for settlements to 46,000 dunums.
On 12 September 2007, the Israeli Ministry of Defence revealed a further change in the path of the racist separation wall, increasing the area of land cut off behind the wall by 28,500 dunums since 2006 to 712,920 dunums.
The period under review saw a decline in apple production to 15,000 tonnes in 2003 from 25,000 tonnes the previous year and a reduction of cultivated land from 50,000 to 20,000 dunums.
Cultivated land is divided between the Syrian Arab population and the 20,000 Israeli settlers and Syrian Arabs can access about 20,000 dunums, while Israeli settlers have access to about 80,000 dunums.
Approximately two years earlier, 1,500 dunums were to be allocated for the Kedumim Gimel neighbourhood, but that plan was also abandoned.(Ha'aretz, 27 November).
Israel claimed that the 120 dunums of land, which had been levelled for the construction of prospective bypass roads intended to link the settlements in the area, were government land.
According to the village council, however, the new route will still isolate around 600 dunums of the village' s agricultural land, planted with olive trees, which will remain behind the Wall.
The Palestinian Authority made available to the Agency a total of 13,285 dunums, at an estimated value of $398,550, to provide rehousing for 59 families in Gaza City and the North area.
According to a recent study, the total area in the West Bank and Gaza officially designated as forest land decreased from 300,736 dunums in 1971 to 231,586 dunums in 1999.
On 2 January 1999, Jewish settlers from Pnei Haver, South-East of Hebron, began clearing a road to a nearby hill and prepared five dunums for construction, according to Palestinian sources.
To enable the construction of the wall, the Israeli army issued military orders for the expropriation of 30,261 dunums of land, 88 per cent of which(i.e. 26,622 dunums) are" private lands belonging to Palestinian residents".
The fire consumed some 40 dunums of Lebanese territory.
The barrier has also segregated 274,607 dunums from their owners.
One hundred dunums of agricultural cropland were razed and water wells and irrigation channels destroyed.