Peace Now has tracked the steady growth of settlements. In the last year, it says, it has spotted 34 new outposts in the West Bank

Despite Violence, Settlers Survive and Spread
With aerial photography, Peace Now has tracked the steady growth of settlements. In the last year, it says, it has spotted 34 new outposts in the West Bank — often just a couple of mobile homes, standing by the gash of a new road. The outposts are often strategically placed to claim a hilltop, to frame a major road or to hem in a Palestinian village. Palestinians know from bitter experience that such trailers have a way of turning into solid, lasting homes.

In all, there are 126 settlements in the West Bank and 19 in Gaza, according to Peace Now. Some, like the settlements just south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, seem like suburbs of Los Angeles, full of doctors and lawyers seeking quiet places where, paradoxically, they say they feel secure, where their children need not lock their bicycles. Others, like the tiny settlement guarded by soldiers in the heart of Hebron, ecstatically pursue a religious vision, leaving bullet holes from Palestinian snipers unpatched as witness to their suffering.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/international/middleeast/28SETT.html