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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian territories الأراضي الفلسطينية al-Arāḍī al-Filasṭīniyya Palestinian flag Palestinian territories according to a Green Line based definition Largest cities Gaza Hebron Nablus Khan Yunis East Jerusalem Languages Arabic Hebrew English Ethnic groups Palestinians Jews ...
The United Nations World Heritage Committee voted Sunday to list the Tell es-Sultan archaeological site in Jericho as a “World Heritage Site in Palestine.”
Jericho has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 along with the rest of the West Bank. It was the first city handed over to Palestinian Authority control in accordance with the Oslo Accords. [100] The limited Palestinian self-rule of Jericho was agreed on in the Gaza–Jericho Agreement of 4 May 1994.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded two people including a child during raids in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho and adjacent refugee camps, Palestinian health authorities ...
These Oslo Accords ceded nominal control of a small amount of the West Bank to a Palestinian authority, with a provisory division of the land, excluding East Jerusalem, into 3 areas: Area A (18% of territory, 55% of population), Area B (20% of territory, 41% of the population), and Area C (62% of territory, 5.8% of population).
It is located adjacent to the Ein es-Sultan refugee camp, two kilometres north of the centre of the Palestinian city of Jericho. The tell was inhabited from the 10th millennium BCE, which makes Jericho among the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. [3] The site is notable for its role in the history of Levantine archaeology.
The Governorates of Palestine ... the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were divided into 16 governorates under the jurisdiction ... Jericho & Al Aghwar: 593 ...
The official term used by the United Nations Security Council to describe Israeli-occupied territories is "the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem", which is used, for example, in Resolutions 446 (1979) Archived 2015-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, 452 (1979) Archived 2015-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, 465 (1980) and 484.