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  2. Israeli occupation of the West Bank - Wikipedia

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    [a] The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and, with the exception of East Jerusalem, by the Israeli Supreme Court. [1] The West Bank, excepting East Jerusalem, is administered by the Israeli Civil Administration, a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

  3. West Bank areas in the Oslo II Accord - Wikipedia

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    Responsibility for religious sites in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was to be transferred to the Palestinian side, gradually in the case of Area C. [31] [32] The Palestinian side agreed to ensure free access to a specific list of Jewish religious sites [33] but due to the uncertain security situation the Israel Defense Forces limits visits by ...

  4. Occupied Palestinian territories - Wikipedia

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    Gaza Strip with Israeli-controlled borders and limited fishing zone, as of December 2012 Map of the West Bank, May 2021, showing Palestinian (green) and Israeli control. The international community regards the Palestinian territories, meaning the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, as territories occupied by Israel.

  5. West Bank - Wikipedia

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    City of Bethlehem, West Bank. The name West Bank is a translation of the Arabic term aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah, which designates the territory situated on the western side of the Jordan River that was occupied in 1948 and annexed in 1950 by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

  6. Israeli-occupied territories - Wikipedia

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    The West Bank was allotted to the Arab state under United Nations Partition Plan of 1947, but the West Bank was occupied by Transjordan after the 1948 war. In April 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank, [44] but this was recognized only by the United Kingdom and Pakistan. (see 1949 Armistice Agreements, Green Line)

  7. Palestinian enclaves - Wikipedia

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    The 1995 Oslo II Accord formalized the fragmentation of the West Bank, allotting to the Palestinians over 60 disconnected islands; [ag] by the end of 1999 the West Bank had been divided into 227 separate entities, most of which were smaller than 2 km 2 (0.77 sq mi) (about half the size of New York's Central Park).

  8. What to know about Israel's large-scale military operation in ...

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    Israel is carrying out large-scale military raids in parts of the occupied West Bank, where the decadeslong conflict with the Palestinians had worsened even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza.

  9. West Bank barrier - Wikipedia

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    The barrier runs partly along or near the 1949 Jordanian–Israeli armistice line ("Green Line") and partly through the Israeli-occupied West Bank diverging eastward from the armistice line by up to 20 km (12 mi) to include on the western side several of the areas with concentrations of highly populated Israeli settlements, such as East ...