Editing Peace Now (section)

===2006 settlement report===
In a report issued in November 2006, Peace Now wrote that 38.8 percent of the land set aside for Israeli settlements, outposts and industrial land in the West Bank was privately owned by Palestinians.<ref name=SettlementReport>Dror Etkes & Hagit Ofran: [http://peacenow.org.il/eng/sites/default/files/Breaking_The_Law_in_WB_nov06Eng.pdf ''Breaking the law in the West Bank – One violation leads to another: Israeli Settlement Building on Private Palestinian Property''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315082904/http://peacenow.org.il/eng/sites/default/files/Breaking_The_Law_in_WB_nov06Eng.pdf |date=15 March 2016 }} Peace Now, October 2006.</ref> This included 86.4 percent of the land set aside for [[Ma'ale Adumim]] and 35.1 percent of [[Ariel (city)|Ariel]]'s land.<ref name=SettlementReport/> After successfully appealing to a court for access to a government database operated by the [[Israeli Civil Administration]], Peace Now reduced its overall estimate to 32.4 percent and the estimate for Ma'ale Adumim to 0.5 percent.<ref name=Haaretz2007>{{Cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/peace-now-32-of-land-held-for-settlements-is-private-palestinian-property-1.215530|title=Peace Now: 32% of Land Held for Settlements Is Private Palestinian Property - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com|website=Haaretz|access-date=2016-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.peacenow.org/entries/archive3537#more|title=Official Israeli Government Data Confirms: Large Part of West Bank Jewish Settlements Sit on Privately-Owned Palestinian Land - Americans for Peace Now|website=Americans for Peace Now}}</ref> A spokesman for the Civil Administration replied that the new report was still "inaccurate in many places".<ref name=Haaretz2007/>