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<span>History</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A4stinensische_Autonomiegebiete" title="Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinisce_Landscipas" title="Palestinisce Landscipas – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Palestinisce Landscipas" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B9_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9" title="الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_Palestinos" title="Territorios Palestinos – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Territorios Palestinos" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1" title="ফিলিস্তিনি ভূখণ্ড – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ফিলিস্তিনি ভূখণ্ড" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinyanong_mga_teritoryo" title="Palestinyanong mga teritoryo – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Palestinyanong mga teritoryo" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A4stinensische_Autonomiegebiete" title="Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoris_Palestins" title="Territoris Palestins – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Territoris Palestins" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Territory" title="Palestinian Territory – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Palestinian Territory" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinsk%C3%A1_%C3%BAzem%C3%AD" title="Palestinská území – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Palestinská území" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiriogaethau_Palesteinaidd" title="Tiriogaethau Palesteinaidd – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Tiriogaethau Palesteinaidd" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A6stinensiske_omr%C3%A5der" title="Palæstinensiske områder – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Palæstinensiske områder" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal%C3%A4stinensische_Autonomiegebiete" title="Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%95%CE%B4%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B7" title="Παλαιστινιακά Εδάφη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Παλαιστινιακά Εδάφη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_Palestinos" title="Territorios Palestinos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Territorios Palestinos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestiniaj_teritorioj" title="Palestiniaj teritorioj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Palestiniaj teritorioj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinar_Lurralde_Okupatuak" title="Palestinar Lurralde Okupatuak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Palestinar Lurralde Okupatuak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C" title="سرزمین‌های فلسطینی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سرزمین‌های فلسطینی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoires_palestiniens_occup%C3%A9s" title="Territoires palestiniens occupés – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Territoires palestiniens occupés" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestynske_kriten" title="Palestynske kriten – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Palestynske kriten" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palastain" title="Palastain – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Palastain" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%94%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80%EC%9D%B8_%EC%98%81%ED%86%A0" title="팔레스타인 영토 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="팔레스타인 영토" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimastj%C3%B3rnarsv%C3%A6%C3%B0i_Palest%C3%ADnumanna" title="Heimastjórnarsvæði Palestínumanna – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Heimastjórnarsvæði Palestínumanna" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territori_palestinesi" title="Territori palestinesi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Territori palestinesi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="השטחים הפלסטיניים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="השטחים הפלסטיניים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="პალესტინის ტერიტორიები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="პალესტინის ტერიტორიები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoria_Palaestinensia" title="Territoria Palaestinensia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Territoria Palaestinensia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinensesch_Autonomiegebidder" title="Palestinensesch Autonomiegebidder – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Palestinensesch Autonomiegebidder" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teritoriile_palestiniene" title="Teritoriile palestiniene – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Teritoriile palestiniene" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Палестинские территории – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Палестинские территории" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a 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country-name">Palestinian territories</div><div class="ib-country-names"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">الأراضي الفلسطينية</span></span></span><br /><i><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Arāḍī al-Filasṭīniyya</i></span></i></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="noresize" style="display:table; width:100%;"> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding: 0px 5px 3px;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Palestine.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Palestinian territories"><img alt="Flag of Palestinian territories" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/125px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="63" 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language">English</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic groups</a> <div class="ib-country-ethnic"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinians</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlers" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli settlers">Israeli/Jewish settlers</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Palestinian_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of the Palestinian territories">Area </a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">6,220 km<sup>2</sup> (2,400 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Water (%)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">3.5</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">5,860 km<sup>2</sup><sup id="cite_ref-CIAwe_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIAwe-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span class="nowrap">(of which <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea" title="Dead Sea">Dead Sea</a>: 220 km<sup>2</sup>)</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">360 km<sup>2</sup><sup id="cite_ref-CIAgz_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIAgz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Demographics of the Palestinian territories">Population</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Palestinians (2016)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">4,816,503<sup id="cite_ref-Ref_pop_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ref_pop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Settlers (2012)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">564,000<sup id="cite_ref-PCBS_settlements_2012_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCBS_settlements_2012-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• 2007 census</div></th><td class="infobox-data">3,719,189 (Pal.)<sup id="cite_ref-Ref_pop_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ref_pop-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pna_rel_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pna_rel-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Density</div></th><td class="infobox-data">654<sup id="cite_ref-pna_rel_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pna_rel-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>/km<sup>2</sup> (1,693.9/sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">(2010)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">0.645<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:orange">medium</span></span> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">97th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pound" title="Egyptian pound">Egyptian pound</a><sup>a</sup> (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">EGP</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_new_sheqel" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli new sheqel">Israeli new sheqel</a><sup>b</sup> (ILS)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_dinar" title="Jordanian dinar">Jordanian dinar</a><sup>c</sup> (JOD)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+2</span> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_European_Time" title="Eastern European Time">EET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+3</span> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_European_Summer_Time" title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic" title="Left- and right-hand traffic">Drives on</a></th><td class="infobox-data">right</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Palestinian_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephone numbers in the Palestinian territories">Calling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/%2B970" class="mw-redirect" title="+970">+970</a><sup>d</sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:PS" title="ISO 3166-2:PS">PS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/.ps" title=".ps">.ps</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86." class="mw-redirect" title="فلسطين.">فلسطين.</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-country-fn"><ol class="ib-country-fn-alpha"> <li value="1">Used in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> since 1951.</li><li value="2">Used since 1985.</li><li value="3">Used in <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> since 1950.</li><li value="4"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Israel" title="Telephone numbers in Israel">+972</a> also used.</li> </ol></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>occupied Palestinian territories</b>, also referred to as the <b>Occupied Palestinian Territory</b> and the <b>Palestinian territories</b>, consist of the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> (including <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>—two regions of the former <a href="/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine" title="Mandate for Palestine">British Mandate for Palestine</a> that have been occupied by <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> since the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a> of 1967. These territories make up the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a>, which was self-declared by the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a> in 1988 and is recognized by <a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="International recognition of the State of Palestine">146 out of 193 UN member states</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" title="International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice</a> (ICJ) employed the term Occupied Palestinian Territory in its <a href="/wiki/Advisory_opinion" title="Advisory opinion">advisory opinion</a> of July 2004, titled "Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its July 2024 advisory opinion, titled "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem", the ICJ wrote "Territorial scope — Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 encompassing the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — The 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' constituting, from legal standpoint, a single territorial unit."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term Occupied Palestinian Territory was used by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> and other international organizations between October 1999<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and December 2012 to refer to areas controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a>. Since 2012, when Palestine was admitted as one of its non-member observer state, the United Nations has been using the name <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a> to describe the political entity<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNOCHADec2009_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNOCHADec2009-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but continues to use Occupied Palestinian Territory to describe the physical territory.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> (EU) also uses the term Occupied Palestinian Territory.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government of Israel and its supporters refer to these areas as "disputed territories".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Gaza Strip and the West Bank were occupied by <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip_by_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">Jordan</a>, respectively, since the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a> until the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a> of 1967. In 1967, Israel <a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Israeli occupation of the West Bank">occupied both territories</a> and has since maintained control. In 1980, Israel <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Law" title="Jerusalem Law">absorbed</a> East Jerusalem and <a href="/wiki/Status_of_Jerusalem" title="Status of Jerusalem">proclaimed</a> the entire to be its capital. The inclusion, though never formally amounting to legal annexation, was condemned internationally<sup id="cite_ref-j-pbfb_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j-pbfb-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and declared "null and void" by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-10/19" title="United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10/19">United Nations General Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Palestinian National Authority, the United Nations,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> international legal and humanitarian bodies<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the broader international community<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> regard <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a> as part of the West Bank, and consequently, part of the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian National Authority never exercised sovereignty over the area, although it housed its offices in <a href="/wiki/Orient_House" title="Orient House">Orient House</a> and several other buildings as an assertion of its sovereign interests.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem has not been recognized by the International community on the grounds that the unilateral annexation of territory occupied during war contravenes the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Fourth Geneva Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> estimates the annual cost to the Palestinian economy of Israeli occupation at $3.4 billion in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cost of the occupation for Israel over four decades (1967–2007) is estimated to be $50 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1988, with the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a> (PLO) intention to declare a <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestinian State</a>, Jordan <a href="/wiki/Jordan%27s_disengagement_from_the_West_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Jordan's disengagement from the West Bank">renounced all territorial claims</a> to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1993, following the <a href="/wiki/Oslo_Accords" title="Oslo Accords">Oslo Accords</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_Accord" class="mw-redirect" title="West Bank Areas in the Oslo II Accord">parts</a> of the territories politically came under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority (<a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Palestinian enclaves</a>, technically known as Areas A and B). Israel still exercised full military and civil control over 61% of the West Bank (<a href="/wiki/Area_C_(West_Bank)" title="Area C (West Bank)">Area C</a>). The Oslo Accords established access to the sea for Gaza within 20 nautical miles from the shore. In the context of the <a href="/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict" title="Gaza–Israel conflict">Gaza–Israel conflict</a>, the Berlin Commitment of 2002 reduced this to 12 miles (19 km). In October 2006, Israel imposed a 6-mile limit, and at the conclusion of the <a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Gaza_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2008–2009 Gaza War">2008–2009 Gaza War</a> restricted access to a 3-nautical-mile limit, beyond which a no-go zone exists. As a result, in 2012 more than 3,000 Palestinian fishermen were denied access to 85% of the maritime areas agreed to in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea" title="Dead Sea">Dead Sea</a> area is off-limits to Palestinian use, and Palestinians are denied access to its coastline.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Israel <a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli disengagement from Gaza">disengaged</a> from the Gaza Strip in 2005. The <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">takeover</a> of Gaza in 2007 <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict" title="Fatah–Hamas conflict">divided</a> the Palestinian territories politically. Abbas's <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> largely ruled the West Bank and was recognized internationally as the official Palestinian (National) Authority.<sup id="cite_ref-alarabiya0701_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alarabiya0701-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the UN considered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to still be occupied by Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-UNOCHADec2009_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNOCHADec2009-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 November 2012, <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19" title="United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19">UNGA 67/19</a> reaffirmed "the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to independence in their State of Palestine on the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967" and decided "to accord to Palestine non-member observer State status in the United Nations". The next month, a UN legal memorandum recognized Palestine's preference of the name "State of Palestine" with <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a> as its current leader.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was noted that there was no legal impediment to using the designation 'Palestine' to refer to the geographical area of the Palestinian territory. It was also explained that there was also no bar to the continued use of the term "Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem" or such other terminology as might customarily be used by the <a href="/wiki/UN_General_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="UN General Assembly">UN General Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gharib_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gharib-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization" title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</a> adopted the name change in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The UN Security Council continues to treat Palestine as a non-sovereign entity,<sup id="cite_ref-IBN-UNSC_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IBN-UNSC-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> preventing its admission to the UN General Assembly as a full member state.<sup id="cite_ref-UN-CHARTER4_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UN-CHARTER4-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Israel" title="Cabinet of Israel">Israeli governments</a> have maintained that the area involved is within <a href="/wiki/Territorial_dispute" title="Territorial dispute">territorial dispute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2023)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The extent of the territories, while subject to future negotiations, have frequently been revendicated by the Palestinian (National) Authority as the <a href="/wiki/Green_Line_(Israel)" title="Green Line (Israel)">Green Line</a>. Since the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Palestinian Declaration of Independence">Palestinian Declaration of Independence</a> in 1988, <a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="International recognition of the State of Palestine">146</a> <a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="International recognition of the State of Palestine">UN Member Nations</a> have recognized the State of Palestine. It has not been recognized by Israel and most <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western nations</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. </p><p>In 2014, <a href="/wiki/2014_Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_Agreements" title="2014 Fatah–Hamas Agreements">Fatah and Hamas agreed</a> to hold elections and form a compromise <a href="/wiki/Third_Hamdallah_Government" title="Third Hamdallah Government">Unity Government</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jPostUnity_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jPostUnity-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government survived the <a href="/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Israel–Gaza conflict">2014 Israel–Gaza conflict</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-PLOun_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLOun-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but dissolved on 17 June 2015 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(region)">Palestine</a></span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Palestinians" title="History of the Palestinians">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the name "Palestine"">Name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians" title="Origin of the Palestinians">Origin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakba" title="Nakba">Nakba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora" title="Palestinian diaspora">Diaspora</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa; font-size:110%;"> <a href="/wiki/Template:Politics_of_Palestine" title="Template:Politics of Palestine">Politics</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <dl><dd><i>Previous</i></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Higher_Committee" title="Arab Higher Committee">Arab Higher Committee</a><br /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Arab_towns_and_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus">Depopulated villages</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All-Palestine_Protectorate" title="All-Palestine Protectorate">All-Palestine Protectorate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All-Palestine_Government" title="All-Palestine Government">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_fedayeen" title="Palestinian fedayeen">Fedayeen militias</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">PLO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">National Authority (PNA)</a></li></ul> <dl><dd>(<a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of political parties in the State of Palestine">political parties</a>)</dd></dl> <hr /> <dl><dd><i>Current</i></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine">PFLP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad" title="Palestinian Islamic Jihad">Islamic Jihad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="Politics of the Palestinian National Authority">Politics of the Palestinian National Authority</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Enclaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority">Governorates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_administered_by_the_Palestinian_Authority" title="List of cities administered by the Palestinian Authority">Cities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas_government_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Hamas government in the Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip governance <span style="font-size:85%;">(Hamas)</span></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Governorates of the Gaza Strip">Governorates of the Gaza Strip</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Council" title="Palestinian National Council">National Council (PNC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Legislative Council (PLC)</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian flag">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_law" title="Palestinian law">Law</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestine</a><br /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a></li></ul></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa; font-size:110%;"> Religion / religious sites</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Christians" title="Palestinian Christians">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Palestine" title="Islam in Palestine">Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian Jew">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa" title="Al-Aqsa">Al-Aqsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs" title="Cave of the Patriarchs">Cave of the Patriarchs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" title="Church of the Nativity">Church of the Nativity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock" title="Dome of the Rock">Dome of the Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza" title="Great Mosque of Gaza">Great Mosque of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph%27s_Tomb" title="Joseph's Tomb">Joseph's Tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bani_Na%27im#Tomb_of_Lot" title="Bani Na'im">Lot's Tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabi_Samwil" title="Nabi Samwil">Nabi Samwil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel%27s_Tomb" title="Rachel's Tomb">Rachel's Tomb</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa; font-size:110%;"> <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian culture">Culture</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_art" title="Palestinian art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Palestine" title="Cinema of Palestine">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_costumes" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian costumes">Costume and 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Palestine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine" title="Timeline of the name Palestine">Timeline of the name Palestine</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Committee of the Red Cross</a>, and the government of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, have used for many years<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (April 2022)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> the terms the "Occupied Palestinian Territory" or "Occupied Palestinian Territories".<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The phrase "occupied Palestine" has been used by Palestinians to mean Israel although Professor Julie Peteet also says that this usage diminished with the advent of the peace process and PLO recognition of Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A parallel exists in the aspirations of David Ben-Gurion,<sup id="cite_ref-Britlabour_and_Zionism_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britlabour_and_Zionism-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menachem Begin,<sup id="cite_ref-Avi_Shlaim_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avi_Shlaim-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to establish Jewish sovereignty over all of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Israel" title="Greater Israel">Greater Israel</a> in trust for the Jewish people.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Borders_of_Israel" title="Borders of Israel">Borders of Israel</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Map comparing the borders of the 1947 partition plan and the armistice of 1949." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg/170px-1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="477" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg/255px-1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg/340px-1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="367" data-file-height="1029" /></a><figcaption> <hr /> <b>Boundaries defined in the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine</a>:</b><br /><br /> <div class="legend"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#99ccef; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> Area assigned for a Jewish state</div> <div class="legend"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#ffaaaa; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#aae1aa; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> Area assigned for an Arab state</div> <div class="legend"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#dcdcdc; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#ff80ff; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> Planned <a href="/wiki/Corpus_separatum_(Jerusalem)" title="Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)"><i>Corpus separatum</i></a> with the intention that <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> would be neither Jewish nor Arab</div><hr /><b>Armistice Demarcation Lines of 1949 (<a href="/wiki/Green_Line_(Israel)" title="Green Line (Israel)">Green Line</a>):</b><br /><br /> <div class="legend"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#99ccef; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#ffaaaa; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#dcdcdc; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> Israeli controlled territory from 1949</div> <div class="legend"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#ff80ff; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1.5em; height:1.5em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color:#aae1aa; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip_by_the_United_Arab_Republic" title="Occupation of the Gaza Strip by the United Arab Republic">Egyptian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">Jordanian</a> controlled territory from 1948 until 1967</div></figcaption></figure> <p>The Palestinian territories consist of two distinct areas: the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. Although the boundaries are commonly referred to as the "1967 borders", they are historically the armistice lines under the <a href="/wiki/1949_Armistice_Agreements" title="1949 Armistice Agreements">1949 Armistice Agreements</a>, which brought an end to the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>, and are commonly referred to as the <a href="/wiki/Green_Line_(Israel)" title="Green Line (Israel)">Green Line</a>. The 1949 armistice lines were expressly declared to be armistice lines, and not international borders. Some Palestinian negotiators have claimed a return to those lines as the borders of a future Palestinian state, while Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel at all.<sup id="cite_ref-untreaty1_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-untreaty1-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League">Arab League</a> has supported these boundaries as the borders of the future <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a> in the 2002 <a href="/wiki/Arab_Peace_Initiative" title="Arab Peace Initiative">Arab Peace Initiative</a>. </p><p>The eastern limit of the West Bank is the border with <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty" title="Israel–Jordan peace treaty">Israel–Jordan peace treaty</a> defined that border as the international <a href="/wiki/Border" title="Border">border</a>, and Jordan renounced all claims to territory west of it. The border segment between Jordan and the West Bank was left undefined pending a definitive agreement on the status of the territory.<sup id="cite_ref-untreaty1_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-untreaty1-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The southern limit of the Gaza Strip is the border with <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>. Egypt renounced all claims to land north of the international border, including the Gaza Strip, in the <a href="/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_peace_treaty" title="Egypt–Israel peace treaty">Egypt–Israel peace treaty</a>. The Palestinians were not parties to either agreement. </p><p>The Gaza Strip is bounded by the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>. The natural geographic boundary of the West Bank, as the name implies, is the <a href="/wiki/Jordan_River" title="Jordan River">Jordan River</a>. To the Territories belong the territorial waters of the Gaza Strip and the part of the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea" title="Dead Sea">Dead Sea</a> between the West Bank and the Jordan border-line (see adjacent CIA map),<sup id="cite_ref-CIAwe_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIAwe-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which are also completely controlled by Israel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Palestinian_state">Palestinian state</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19" title="United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19">United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19</a></div> <p>The Palestinian territories are part of the area intended by the United Nations to become the territory of the future <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Res_58/292_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Res_58/292-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally, a larger area was allotted to the planned Palestinian state in <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">Resolution 181</a> of 29 November 1947, but the Arabs rejected it and in the <a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war" class="mw-redirect" title="1947–1949 Palestine war">1948 Palestine war</a>, the Israeli army conquered major parts of it. While in the <i>Partition Plan</i> about 45% of historic Palestine was destined for the Arabic state, the Palestinian territories constitute only some 23%.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last figure is including all space occupied by <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement">Israeli settlements</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli West Bank barrier">walls</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Highway_60_(Israel%E2%80%93Palestine)#Access,_bypass_roads" title="Highway 60 (Israel–Palestine)">roads</a>. </p><p>In the UN, nearly all countries voted in favour of <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_58/292" title="United Nations General Assembly Resolution 58/292">Resolution 58/292</a> of 17 May 2004; namely, that the boundaries of a future Palestinian state should be based on the pre-1967 borders, which correspond with the Green Line. The Resolution affirmed, in connection with the Palestinian right to self-determination and to sovereignty, that the independent State of Palestine should be based on the pre-1967 borders.<sup id="cite_ref-Res_58/292_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Res_58/292-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_43/177" title="United Nations General Assembly Resolution 43/177">Resolution 43/177</a> of 15 December 1988, the declaration of independence of the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a> was acknowledged by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">UN General Assembly</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it was not admitted as a member state. In the same resolution, their sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory was recognized. </p><p>On 29 November 2012, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">UN General Assembly</a> passed <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19" title="United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19">United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19</a> changing Palestine's observer status at the UN from "entity" to "non-member state" by a vote of 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="East_Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Status_of_Jerusalem" title="Status of Jerusalem">Status of Jerusalem</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg/220px-2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg/330px-2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg/440px-2018_OCHA_OpT_map_East_Jerusalem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1768" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>2018 United Nations <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Office_for_the_Coordination_of_Humanitarian_Affairs" title="United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs">OCHA</a> map of the area, showing <a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Israeli occupation of the West Bank">Israeli occupation arrangements</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Immediately after the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a> of June 1967, Israel effectively annexed <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>, an area comprising the much smaller prior Jordanian municipality of east Jerusalem and a surrounding area of the West Bank, as far as <a href="/wiki/Kalandia" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalandia">Kalandia</a> to the north and <a href="/wiki/Har_Homa" title="Har Homa">Har Homa</a> to the south. Israeli law, jurisdiction and administration were applied to this area, which was also made part of the Israeli <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> municipality in its entirety. East Jerusalem residents became Israeli residents with blue Israeli ID cards. In 1980, the <a href="/wiki/Knesset" title="Knesset">Knesset</a> elevated the issue of the unity of Jerusalem to constitutional status by enacting <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Law" title="Jerusalem Law">Basic Law: Jerusalem the Capital of Israel</a>, an act which was condemned by much of the world community, the few, mainly Latin American, embassies maintained in west Jerusalem promptly moving to <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>. Israel's annexation of <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a> lacks international recognition by any country. Seven UNSC resolutions, including <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_478" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 478">United Nations Security Council Resolution 478</a> declared it "null and void" and required that it be rescinded, stating that it was a violation of international law (the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Fourth Geneva Convention</a>). The United Nations never explicitly recognized Jerusalem as part of either Israel or Palestine, as <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">Resolution 181 (1947)</a> was never revoked. In Resolution 181, Jerusalem was intended to become a <i><a href="/wiki/Corpus_separatum_(Jerusalem)" title="Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)">corpus separatum</a></i> under international regime. Most countries do not recognize either West Jerusalem or Jerusalem as Israel's capital.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Palestinians regard East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state. East Jerusalem is generally recognized as part of the Palestinian Territories. In <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel" title="List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel">UN resolutions concerning Israel</a>, East Jerusalem is routinely referred to as a part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<sup id="cite_ref-Res_58/292_58-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Res_58/292-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Israel" title="Supreme Court of Israel">Israeli Supreme Court</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Fourth Geneva Convention</a>, which prohibits unilateral annexation of occupied territory, does not<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (May 2013)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Occupied_Palestinian_territories#Dubious" title="Talk:Occupied Palestinian territories">discuss</a></i>]</sup> apply to East Jerusalem, as there was no<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (May 2013)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Occupied_Palestinian_territories#Dubious" title="Talk:Occupied Palestinian territories">discuss</a></i>]</sup> "legitimate sovereign"<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> recognised by Israel and its allies previously exercising control over the territory. In Israel, there has always been large support for retaining all of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, although opinions differ regarding the large number of outlying Palestinian villages and neighbourhoods annexed to Jerusalem beyond "core" East Jerusalem (the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Jarrah" title="Sheikh Jarrah">Sheikh Jarrah</a> and the large post-1967 Jewish neighborhoods such as <a href="/wiki/Ramot" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramot">Ramot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ramat_Eshkol" title="Ramat Eshkol">Ramat Eshkol</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Hill_(neighborhood)" class="mw-redirect" title="French Hill (neighborhood)">French Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gilo" title="Gilo">Gilo</a>). </p><p>A few times, there were Israeli or U.S. proposals to divide East Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians. In the 1995 <a href="/wiki/Beilin%E2%80%93Abu_Mazen_agreement" title="Beilin–Abu Mazen agreement">Beilin–Abu Mazen agreement</a>, Israeli negotiators proposed Palestinian sovereignty over some Arab neighborhoods within an expanded Jerusalem that would include annexed Israeli neighborhoods and major <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement">settlement blocs</a>. In 2000, U.S. president Bill Clinton offered a similar proposal in his <a href="/wiki/The_Clinton_Parameters" title="The Clinton Parameters">Clinton Parameters</a>. In more recent years, the Israeli position has strongly been favourable to keeping all of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gaza_Strip">Gaza Strip</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></div> <p>In 2005, Israel pulled all its remaining forces out of the Gaza Strip and dismantled its settlements. Nevertheless, according to the international community, the Gaza Strip is still considered to be occupied by Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-UNOCHADec2009_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNOCHADec2009-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Israel has denied that it occupies the Gaza Strip, but two of the three border sectors of the Gaza Strip, together with the coast and airspace, are controlled by Israel (the third border sector near Rafah is controlled by Egypt).<sup id="cite_ref-ai-gaza_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ai-gaza-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ips-120309_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ips-120309-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The UN <i>Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967</i> stated in 2007: </p> <blockquote><p>Israel remains an occupying Power in respect of Gaza. Arguments that Israel ceased its occupation of Gaza in 2005 following the evacuation of its settlements and the withdrawal of its troops take no account of the fact that Israel retains effective control over Gaza by means of its control over Gaza's external borders, airspace, territorial waters, population registry, tax revenues and governmental functions. The effectiveness of this control is emphasized by regular military incursions and rocket attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238443738"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile vcard" style="width:21.0em;"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><div class="adr"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics of Palestine">Politics of Palestine</a></div></th></tr><tr><th><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_(alternative).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Coat of arms of Palestine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_%28alternative%29.svg/80px-Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_%28alternative%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_%28alternative%29.svg/120px-Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_%28alternative%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_%28alternative%29.svg/160px-Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine_%28alternative%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="815" /></a></span></th></tr><tr><th style="border-bottom: #aaa 1px solid"></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-above" style="font-size:90%;font-weight:normal; border-bottom:none;"> <div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Officeholders whose status is disputed are shown in <i>italics</i></div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">National symbols</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;;text-align:center;"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian flag">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Anthem" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Anthem">National anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Palestine" title="Coat of arms of Palestine">Coat of arms</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Administrative divisions</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Palestinian enclaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Palestine" title="Governorates of Palestine">Governorates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_refugee_camps" title="Palestinian refugee camps">Palestinian refugee camps</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Government</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Palestine" title="Government of Palestine">State of Palestine government <span style="font-size:85%;">(Ramallah)</span></a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="President of the State of Palestine">President</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a><sup><small>a</small></sup></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Prime Minister of the State of Palestine">Prime Minister</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Mustafa_(economist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Mustafa (economist)">Mohammad Mustafa</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas_government_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Hamas government in the Gaza Strip">Hamas government <span style="font-size:85%;">(Gaza)</span></a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Legislative Council</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Council" title="Palestinian National Council">Palestinian National Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Current_members_of_Palestinian_Legislative_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Current members of Palestinian Legislative Council">Current members</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council">Speaker</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Aziz_Dweik" title="Aziz Dweik">Aziz Dweik</a></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Elections</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine" title="Elections in Palestine">Elections</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Electoral_regions_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Electoral regions in the State of Palestine">Electoral regions</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="List of political parties in the Palestinian National Authority">Political parties</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_Palestine_Liberation_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="List of political parties in the Palestine Liberation Organization">PLO political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Next_Palestinian_presidential_election" title="Next Palestinian presidential election">Next presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Next_Palestinian_legislative_election" title="Next Palestinian legislative election">Next legislative election</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Local elections</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2017_Palestinian_local_elections" title="2017 Palestinian local elections">2017 Palestinian local elections</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="List of political parties in Palestine">Political parties</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a> (PLO) factions</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Liberation_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Liberation Movement">Palestinian National Liberation Movement</a> (Fatah)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Mustaqbal_(electoral_list)" title="Al-Mustaqbal (electoral list)">Al-Mustaqbal electoral list</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marwan_Barghouti" title="Marwan Barghouti">Marwan Barghouti</a> (Fatah)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine">Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine</a> (PFLP)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine">Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine</a> (DFLP)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_People%27s_Party" title="Palestinian People's Party">Palestinian People's Party</a> (PPP)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Liberation_Front" title="Palestinian Liberation Front">Palestinian Liberation Front</a> (PLF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Liberation_Front" title="Arab Liberation Front">Arab Liberation Front</a> (ALF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Democratic_Union" title="Palestinian Democratic Union">Palestinian Democratic Union</a> (FIDA)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Popular_Struggle_Front" title="Palestinian Popular Struggle Front">Palestinian Popular Struggle Front</a> (PPSF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Arab_Front" title="Palestinian Arab Front">Palestinian Arab Front</a> (PAF)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/As-Sa%27iqa" title="As-Sa'iqa">As-Sa'iqa</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Other parties</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Islamic Resistance Movement</a> (Hamas) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Hamas" title="List of leaders of Hamas">List of leaders</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad" title="Palestinian Islamic Jihad">Palestinian Islamic Jihad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Way_(Palestinian_political_party)" title="Third Way (Palestinian political party)">Third Way</a> <ul><li>Leader: <a href="/wiki/Salam_Fayyad" title="Salam Fayyad">Salam Fayyad</a></li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dt>Palestinian <a href="/wiki/Electoral_list" title="Electoral list">Electoral Lists</a></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_List" title="Democratic Alliance List">Democratic Alliance List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Mustaqbal_(electoral_list)" title="Al-Mustaqbal (electoral list)">Al-Mustaqbal</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Leaders</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;;text-align:center">Map shows birthplaces or family origins <div class="center"> <div style="width: 240px; height: 280px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -40px; left: -10px; width: 300px"><div class="noresize"><div class="locmap" style="width:300px;float:right;clear:right"><div style="width:300px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:300px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Occupied_Palestinian_Territories" title="Occupied Palestinian territories is located in Mandatory Palestine"><img alt="Occupied Palestinian territories is located in Mandatory Palestine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Mandatory_Palestine_location_map.svg/300px-Mandatory_Palestine_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="557" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Mandatory_Palestine_location_map.svg/450px-Mandatory_Palestine_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Mandatory_Palestine_location_map.svg/600px-Mandatory_Palestine_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="614" data-file-height="1141" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:43.671%;left:32.874%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Al-Jura" title="Yassin b.1936 Haniyeh's parents"><img alt="Yassin b.1936 Haniyeh's parents" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/8px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/12px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/16px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Yassin" title="Ahmed Yassin">Yassin b.1936</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Haniyeh" class="mw-redirect" title="Haniyeh">Haniyeh's parents</a> </span></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:38.902%;left:40.246%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Yibna" title="Rantisi b.1947"><img alt="Rantisi b.1947" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/8px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/12px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/16px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantisi" title="Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi">Rantisi b.1947</a> </span></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:36.204%;left:60.043%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Silwad" title="Mashal"><img alt="Mashal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/8px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/12px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/16px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Khaled_Mashal" title="Khaled Mashal">Mashal</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:43.643%;left:33.346%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ashkelon" title="Sinwar"><img alt="Sinwar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/8px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/12px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/SpringGreen_pog.svg/16px-SpringGreen_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Sinwar" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinwar">Sinwar</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:36.859%;left:45.695%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Lod" title="Habash b.1926"><img alt="Habash b.1926" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/George_Habash" title="George Habash">Habash b.1926</a> </span></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:12.718%;left:69.167%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Safed" title="Abbas b.1935"><img alt="Abbas b.1935" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Yellow_pog.svg/8px-Yellow_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Yellow_pog.svg/12px-Yellow_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Yellow_pog.svg/16px-Yellow_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><span class="nowrap"> <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Abbas b.1935</a> </span></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:34.929%;left:78.192%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/As-Salt" title="Hawatmeh"><img alt="Hawatmeh" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Orange_pog.svg/8px-Orange_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Orange_pog.svg/12px-Orange_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Orange_pog.svg/16px-Orange_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Nayef_Hawatmeh" title="Nayef Hawatmeh">Hawatmeh</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:51.323%;left:23.195%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis" title="Nakhalah"><img alt="Nakhalah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Black_pog.svg/8px-Black_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Black_pog.svg/12px-Black_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Black_pog.svg/16px-Black_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Ziyad_al-Nakhalah" title="Ziyad al-Nakhalah">Nakhalah</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Foreign relations of the State of Palestine">Foreign relations</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_and_Expatriates_(State_of_Palestine)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (State of Palestine)">Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates</a> <dl><dd>Minister: <a href="/wiki/Riyad_al-Maliki" title="Riyad al-Maliki">Riyad al-Maliki</a></dd></dl></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="List of diplomatic missions of Palestine">Diplomatic missions of</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Palestine" title="List of diplomatic missions in Palestine">in Palestine</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_passport" title="Palestinian Authority passport">Passport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Palestinian_citizens" title="Visa requirements for Palestinian citizens">Visa requirements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Palestine" title="Visa policy of Palestine">Visa policy</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Ambassador_to_the_United_Nations" title="Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations">Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_reconciliation_process" title="Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process">Fatah–Hamas reconciliation process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_peace_process" title="Israeli–Palestinian peace process">Israeli–Palestinian peace process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="International recognition of the State of Palestine">International recognition</a></li></ul> <hr /></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0.5em;;text-align:center;"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League"><img alt="Arab League" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_the_Arab_League.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Arab_League.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Special:EditPage/Template:Politics of Palestine"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a> and <a href="/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Governance of the Gaza Strip">Governance of the Gaza Strip</a></div> <p>The political status of the territories has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">PLO</a> and of numerous statements and resolutions by the United Nations. (See <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel" title="List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel">List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel</a>.) Since 1994, the autonomous <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a> has exercised various degrees of control in large parts of the territories, as a result of the Declaration of Principles contained in the <a href="/wiki/Oslo_Accords" title="Oslo Accords">Oslo Accords</a>. The United States government considers the West Bank and Gaza as a single entity for political, economic, legal and other purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The State Department and other U.S. government agencies, such as USAID West Bank and Gaza,<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have been tasked with projects in the areas of democracy, governance, resources, and infrastructure. Part of the USAID mission is to provide flexible and discrete support for implementation of the Quartet Road Map.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Road Map is an internationally backed plan that calls for the progressive development of a viable Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza. Participating states provide assistance through direct contributions or through the Palestinian State account established by the World Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gaza_City.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Gaza_City.JPG/220px-Gaza_City.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Gaza_City.JPG/330px-Gaza_City.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Gaza_City.JPG/440px-Gaza_City.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Gaza City in 2007.</figcaption></figure> <p>Hamas won a majority of seats in elections for the Palestinian Parliament in 2006 and formed a government in <a href="/wiki/Ramallah" title="Ramallah">Ramallah</a> for the entire PA largely shunned by the United States and Israel. The <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> movement continued to dominate the PA security forces in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In 2007, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip by force, executing PA officers and removing its officials, many of whom, such as <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Dahlan" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Dahlan">Muhammad Dahlan</a>, escaped the Gaza Strip with their families.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a> promptly deposed the Hamas-dominated PA government, and two rival administrations were created, a Fatah-controlled one in the West Bank, with which Israel, the US and the EU resumed business, and a Hamas-controlled one in the Gaza Strip which was largely shunned by the world community. After Hamas intensified rocket and mortar fire on Israeli civilian centers from the Gaza Strip, the United States and Israel instituted a military and economic blockade of the Gaza Strip.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When that failed to topple the new government, a covert operation was launched to eliminate Hamas by force.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The covert initiative was exposed when confidential State Department documents were accidentally leaked by the U.S. envoy. The talking points delivered to the Fatah leadership said: </p> <blockquote> <p>Hamas should be given a clear choice, with a clear deadline: they either accept a new government that meets the Quartet principles, or they reject it. The consequences of Hamas' decision should also be clear: If Hamas does not agree within the prescribed time, you should make clear your intention to declare a state of emergency and form an emergency government explicitly committed to that platform.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Since the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza (2007)</a>, the administration of the territories has been contested by two rival factions of the Palestinian National Authority, with Hamas controlling the Gaza Strip and Fatah continuing to administer the West Bank. Both groups claim legitimacy over leadership of the Palestinian territories. Most countries with an interest in the issues, including most of the Arab countries, recognize the administration of <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a> as the legitimate government over both Palestinian Territories.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (November 2010)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>During Operation Cast Lead the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1860 (2009), which said that the Gaza Strip constitutes an integral part of the territory occupied in 1967 that will be a part of the Palestinian state.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 December 2011, <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 Six-Day War borders; Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, and Dr. Riad Malki, the Foreign Minister of Palestine, formally confirmed the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Iceland and Palestine.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2014_Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_Gaza_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Fatah–Hamas Gaza Agreement">2014 Fatah–Hamas Gaza Agreement</a> provided for elections and the formation of a compromise unity government.<sup id="cite_ref-jPostUnity_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jPostUnity-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Israel–Gaza conflict">2014 Israel–Gaza conflict</a> intervened, however the unity government survived. In August, Palestinian leaders said they would apply to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a> for the establishment of a timetable for ending the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The application would be made on 15 September 2014, following an <a href="/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League">Arab League</a> meeting on 5 September at which support for the move would be requested. Unless a timetable was established, the Palestinian leadership said it would apply to the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> where it would hold Israel responsible for its actions not only in the West Bank, but in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PLOun_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLOun-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_status_and_sovereignty">Political status and sovereignty</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/International_law_and_the_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" title="International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict">International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict</a> and <a href="/wiki/Status_of_territories_occupied_by_Israel_in_1967" title="Status of territories occupied by Israel in 1967">Status of territories occupied by Israel in 1967</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg/220px-Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg/330px-Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg/440px-Map_of_Gaza_Strip_with_no-go_zone_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4732" data-file-height="5712" /></a><figcaption>Gaza Strip with Israeli-controlled borders and limited fishing zone, as of December 2012</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Situation_in_the_West_Bank_(May_2021).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Situation_in_the_West_Bank_%28May_2021%29.svg/220px-Situation_in_the_West_Bank_%28May_2021%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="447" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Situation_in_the_West_Bank_%28May_2021%29.svg/330px-Situation_in_the_West_Bank_%28May_2021%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Situation_in_the_West_Bank_%28May_2021%29.svg/440px-Situation_in_the_West_Bank_%28May_2021%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2226" data-file-height="4522" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, May 2021, showing <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian</a> (green) and Israeli control.</figcaption></figure> <p>The international community regards the Palestinian territories, meaning the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, as territories occupied by Israel. Israel has withdrawn its military forces from the Gaza strip, but it continues to be designated the occupying power in the Gaza Strip by the United Nations, the United States and various human rights organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final status of the Palestinian Territories as an independent state is supported by the countries that form the <a href="/wiki/Quartet_on_the_Middle_East" title="Quartet on the Middle East">Quartet</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Road_map_for_peace" title="Road map for peace">Road map for peace</a>". The government of Israel has also accepted the road map but with 14 reservations.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and <a href="/wiki/Jericho" title="Jericho">Jericho</a> took place pursuant to the Israel–PLO 4 May 1994 <a href="/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Jericho_Agreement" title="Gaza–Jericho Agreement">Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area</a>. In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel–PLO 28 September 1995 <a href="/wiki/Interim_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Interim Agreement">Interim Agreement</a>, the Israel–PLO 15 January 1997 <a href="/wiki/Protocol_Concerning_the_Redeployment_in_Hebron" title="Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron">Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron</a>, the Israel–PLO 23 October 1998 <a href="/wiki/Wye_River_Memorandum" title="Wye River Memorandum">Wye River Memorandum</a>, and the 4 September 1999 <a href="/wiki/Sharm_el-Sheikh_Memorandum_(1999)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum (1999)">Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement</a>. </p><p>The DOP provides that Israel will retain responsibility during the transitional period for external security and for internal security and public order of <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement">Israeli settlements</a> and citizens. Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Intifada">al-Aqsa Intifada</a> that began in September 2000. </p><p>In 2003, the Israeli government issued a plan for total withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the northern West Bank by late 2005. This became known as the <a href="/wiki/Israel%27s_unilateral_disengagement_plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel's unilateral disengagement plan">Disengagement Plan</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority" title="Palestinian Authority">Palestinian Authority</a> welcomed this plan, but declared that until final status, it would still consider the Gaza Strip under Israeli occupation. Many Israelis opposed the plan, and tensions were very high in Israel before and after the Disengagement Plan was approved by the Israeli <a href="/wiki/Knesset" title="Knesset">Knesset</a> on 16 February 2005. </p><p>In August 2005, the <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> and Israeli police forcibly removed all settlers from the Gaza Strip. Israel completed the disengagement on 12 September 2005. Presently, most of the West Bank is administered by Israel though 42% of it is under varying degrees of autonomous rule by the <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a>-run Palestinian Authority. The Gaza Strip is currently under the control of <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> (ICC) is an independent international treaty organisation with its own legislative assembly. Many of the member states recognise the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki presented the ICC prosecutor with documentary evidence which shows that 67 states in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe have legally recognised the State of Palestine.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2010, King <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan" title="Abdullah II of Jordan">Abdullah of Jordan</a>, after a meeting with the Israeli president <a href="/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a> at the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Davos" title="Davos">Davos</a>, declared that his country does not want to rule the West Bank and that "the two-state solution" to the <a href="/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Israeli–Palestinian conflict">Israeli–Palestinian conflict</a> was the only viable option. If rule over the territory was to be transferred to the kingdom, it would only "replace Israeli military rule with Jordanian military rule... and the Palestinians want their own state".<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On Thursday, 29 November 2012, In a 138–9 vote (with 41 abstaining) General Assembly resolution 67/19 passed, upgrading Palestine to "non-member observer state" status in the United Nations.<sup id="cite_ref-unispal1_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unispal1-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-aljazeera.com_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aljazeera.com-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new status equates Palestine's with that of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a>. The change in status was described by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> as "de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine".<sup id="cite_ref-UNStatehoodBid2012accepted_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNStatehoodBid2012accepted-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The vote was a historic benchmark for the <a href="/wiki/Diplomatic_recognition" title="Diplomatic recognition">partially recognised</a> State of Palestine and its citizens, whilst it was a diplomatic setback for Israel and the United States. Status as an observer state in the UN will allow the State of Palestine to join treaties and <a href="/wiki/List_of_specialized_agencies_of_the_United_Nations" title="List of specialized agencies of the United Nations">specialised UN agencies</a>, including the International Civil Aviation Organisation,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the International Criminal Court, and other organisations for recognised sovereign nations. It shall permit Palestine to claim legal rights over its territorial waters and air space as a sovereign state recognised by the UN, and allow the Palestinian people the right to sue for control of their claimed territory in the International Court of Justice and to bring war-crimes charges against Israel in the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:12.03.11.P3120502.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/12.03.11.P3120502.JPG/220px-12.03.11.P3120502.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/12.03.11.P3120502.JPG/330px-12.03.11.P3120502.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/12.03.11.P3120502.JPG/440px-12.03.11.P3120502.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2976" data-file-height="3968" /></a><figcaption>Israeli soldiers in <a href="/wiki/Awarta" title="Awarta">Awarta</a>, West Bank in 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>Customary international law, including the International Court of Justice's interpretation of the Fourth Geneva Convention in their July 2004 ruling, has been widely interpreted as prohibiting Israel from building settlements, due to its clauses prohibiting the transfer of a civilian population into an occupied territory.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was reaffirmed 5 December 2001, at the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention. The participating High Contracting Parties called upon Israel "to fully and effectively respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to refrain from perpetrating any violation of the Convention. They reaffirm the illegality of the settlements in the said territories and of the extension thereof."<sup id="cite_ref-domino.un.org_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-domino.un.org-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Article 47 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits any change of status in occupied territory concluded through negotiations between the occupying power and local authorities under occupation. This finding also suggests that Israel may be in violation of the Rome Statute (one of the primary legal instruments of the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a>), Article 8, section (2)(b)(viii): "The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory" see:.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Given that <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67/19" title="United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19">United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19</a> upgraded Palestine to non-member observer state status in November 2012, representatives of Palestine may now be able to take members of the Israeli government to the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> under violations of the Rome Statute. On 31 January 2012, the United Nations independent "International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" filed a report stating that if Israel did not stop all settlement activity immediately and begin withdrawing all settlers from the West Bank, it potentially might face a case at the International Criminal Court, increasing credibility of any Palestinianin attempt to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The UN has, after granting Palestine observer state status, permitted Palestine to title its representative office to the UN as 'The Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations',<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> seen by many as a reflexion of the UN's <a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a> recognition of the State of Palestine's sovereignty,<sup id="cite_ref-unispal1_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unispal1-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Palestine has started to re-title its name accordingly on postal stamps, official documents and passports.<sup id="cite_ref-aljazeera.com_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aljazeera.com-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Palestinian authorities have also instructed its diplomats to officially represent '<a href="/wiki/The_State_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="The State of Palestine">The State of Palestine</a>', as opposed to the '<a href="/wiki/Palestine_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestine National Authority">Palestine National Authority</a>'.<sup id="cite_ref-aljazeera.com_86-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aljazeera.com-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, on 17 December 2012, UN Chief of Protocol Yeocheol Yoon decided that 'the designation of "State of Palestine" shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents'.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Holy_Land_2022_(1)_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Holy_Land_2022_%281%29_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg/220px-Holy_Land_2022_%281%29_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Holy_Land_2022_%281%29_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg/330px-Holy_Land_2022_%281%29_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Holy_Land_2022_%281%29_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg/440px-Holy_Land_2022_%281%29_P469_Bethlehem_barrier_graffiti.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3888" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli West Bank barrier">Israeli West Bank barrier</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Critics point out that implementation of the Oslo Accords has not improved conditions for the population under occupation.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the UN considered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to still be occupied by Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-UNOCHADec2009_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNOCHADec2009-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Israel's policies and actions in its ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories <a href="/wiki/Israel_and_apartheid" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel and apartheid">have drawn accusations</a> that it is committing the <a href="/wiki/Crime_of_apartheid" title="Crime of apartheid">crime of apartheid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Israel contends that the settlements are not illegal as the West Bank is considered a "disputed territory" under international law. <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_242" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 242">United Nations Security Council Resolution 242</a> recognized Israel's rights to "safe and secure borders", which has been interpreted by the Israeli government as meaning that Israel had a right to West Bank territory for secure borders. The <a href="/wiki/San_Remo_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="San Remo Conference">San Remo Conference</a>, binding under international law, further envisioned the West Bank as being part of a sovereign <a href="/wiki/Jewish_state" title="Jewish state">Jewish state</a>, and arguably encourages, rather than prohibits Jewish settlement in the area. Furthermore, according to the Israeli government, many of the settlements were established on the sites of former Jewish communities that had existed there prior to 1947 on land that was legitimately bought, and ethnically cleansed by Arab forces. Israel views the territory as being the subject of legitimate diplomatic dispute and negotiation under international law.<sup id="cite_ref-mfa_settlements_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mfa_settlements-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DGold1_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DGold1-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2023)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>, captured in 1967, was unilaterally annexed by Israel. The UN Security Council Resolution 478 condemned the annexation as "a violation of international law". This annexation has not been recognized by other nations, although the United States Congress declared its <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Embassy_Act" title="Jerusalem Embassy Act">intention to recognize the annexation</a> (a proposal that has been condemned by other states and organizations). Because of the question of Jerusalem's status, <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Israel" title="List of diplomatic missions in Israel">most states</a> base their diplomatic missions there and treat <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a> as the capital,<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2023)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> though the <a href="/wiki/United_States_recognition_of_Jerusalem_as_capital_of_Israel" title="United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel">United States</a><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Guatemala<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both have embassies in the Jerusalem. Israel asserts that these territories are not currently claimed by any other state and that Israel has the right to control them. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg/220px-PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg/330px-PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg/440px-PalestinianLegislativeCouncilGazaCity.jpg 2x" data-file-width="567" data-file-height="378" /></a><figcaption>The destroyed <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a> building in Gaza City, <a href="/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict" title="Gaza–Israel conflict">Gaza–Israel conflict</a>, September 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>Israel's position has not been accepted by most countries and international bodies, and the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> (including <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> are referred to as occupied territories (with Israel as the occupying power) by most international legal and political bodies,<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the rest of the Arab bloc, the UK,<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the EU, the United States (before President Trump),<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations,<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_106-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the International Court of Justice, the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention,<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Israeli Supreme Court (in a decision regarding the <a href="/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli West Bank barrier">Israeli West Bank barrier</a>). </p><p>Former U.S. President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> stated, during his presidency, that he did not expect Israel to return entirely to pre-1967 borders, due to "new realities on the ground."<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both US President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and UK Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, who played notable roles in attempts at mediation, noted the need for some territorial and diplomatic compromise on this issue, based on the validity of some of the claims of both sides.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One compromise offered by Clinton would have allowed Israel to keep some settlements in the West Bank, especially those in large blocks near the pre-1967 borders of Israel. In return, Palestinians would have received concessions of land in other parts of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Clinton_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clinton-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The United Nations did not declare any change in the status of the territories as of the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a> between 1993 and 2000, although a 1999 U.N. document<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_106-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> implied that the chance for a change in that status was slim at that period. </p><p>During the period between the 1993 Oslo Accords and the <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Intifada">Second Intifada</a> beginning in 2000, Israeli officials asserted that the term "occupation" did not accurately reflect the state of affairs in the territories. During this time, the Palestinian population in large parts of the territories had a large degree of autonomy and only limited exposure to the IDF except when seeking to move between different areas. Following the events of the Second Intifada, and in particular, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Defensive_Shield" title="Operation Defensive Shield">Operation Defensive Shield</a>, most territories, including Palestinian cities (Area A), came back under effective Israeli military control, making the discussion along those lines largely moot. </p><p>In the summer of 2005, Israel implemented its <a href="/wiki/Israel%27s_unilateral_disengagement_plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel's unilateral disengagement plan">unilateral disengagement plan</a>; about 8,500 Israeli citizens living in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> were forcibly removed from the territory, along with citizens from 4 settlements in the northern West Bank; some were compensated with alternative homes and a sum of money. The <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> vacated Gaza in 2005, but <a href="/wiki/Operation_Summer_Rains" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Summer Rains">invaded it again</a> in 2006 in response to rocket attacks and the abduction of Israeli soldier <a href="/wiki/Gilad_Shalit" title="Gilad Shalit">Gilad Shalit</a> by Hamas. </p><p>In January 2010, King <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan" title="Abdullah II of Jordan">Abdullah of Jordan</a>, after a meeting with the Israeli president <a href="/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a> at the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Davos" title="Davos">Davos</a>, declared that his country does not want to rule the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> and that "the two-state solution" to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was the only viable option. If rule over the territory was to be transferred to the kingdom, it would only "replace Israeli military rule with Jordanian military rule... and the Palestinians want their own state."<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2010, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> recognized Palestine as a state with its 1967 borders. This move was later followed by <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a>. This action was later criticized by Israel and the United States, who labelled it "counterproductive".<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Demographics of the State of Palestine">Demographics of the State of Palestine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Central_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</a> (PCBS) estimated Palestinians at mid year 2009 as 10.7 million persons as follows: 3.9 million in the Palestinian Territory (36.6%), 1.2 million (11.5%) in Israel; 5.0 million in Arab countries (46.2%), 0.6 million in foreign countries (5.7%).<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> (2008), the Palestinian territories have one of the fastest growing populations in the world, with numbers surging 30% in the past decade (2008). There were 3.76 million Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, up from 2.89 million ten years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Census" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Census">U.S. Census</a>, <a href="/wiki/Population_growth" title="Population growth">population growth</a> from 1990 to 2008 in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza</a> and the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> was 106%, from 1.9 million (1990) to 3.9 million persons.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the UN (2010), the Palestinian population was 4.4 million.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Central_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</a> (PCBS) population density in 2009 was 654 capita/km<sup>2</sup>, of which 433 capita/km<sup>2</sup> in the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> including Jerusalem and 4,073 capita/km<sup>2</sup> in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PCBSfig09_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCBSfig09-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In mid-2009, the share of population less than 15 years was 41.9% and above 65 years 3%.<sup id="cite_ref-PCBSfig09_121-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCBSfig09-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png/220px-IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png/330px-IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png/440px-IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png 2x" data-file-width="961" data-file-height="560" /></a><figcaption>Settler population, 1972–2007: yellow=East Jerusalem; blue= rest of West Bank<sup id="cite_ref-FmepByYear_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FmepByYear-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BtselemByYear_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BtselemByYear-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1970s, Israel's methods for seizing Palestinian land to establish settlements included requisitioning for ostensibly military purposes and spraying of land with poison.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The PCBS estimated that about 564,000 <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settler" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli settler">Israeli settlers</a> lived in the West Bank in 2012. Some 203,000 of them were settled in East Jerusalem (Area J1 of the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Governorate" title="Jerusalem Governorate">Jerusalem Governorate</a>) and 346,000 in the remaining West Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-PCBS_settlements_2012_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCBS_settlements_2012-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Consistent with its policy of Jerusalem as a <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem#Jerusalem_as_capital" title="East Jerusalem">united and indivisible capital of Israel</a>, Israel does not publish exact figures of the number of settlers in East Jerusalem. Rather the figures of Israelis in <a href="/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria_Area" title="Judea and Samaria Area">Judea and Samaria District</a> are given. Independently from the political composition of its subsequent governments, the number of settlers in the West Bank has grown rapidly and in a relatively straight line since 1967 (see graphics). The <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Central_Bureau_of_Statistics" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics">Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics</a> counted about 341,000 settlers end 2012 in the Judea and Samaria District, which does not include Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-ICBS_st02_17_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ICBS_st02_17-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population">Population</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Palestine">List of cities in Palestine</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_administered_by_the_Palestinian_Authority" title="List of cities administered by the Palestinian Authority">List of cities administered by the Palestinian Authority</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="List of cities in the Gaza Strip">List of cities in the Gaza Strip</a></div> <table class="wikitable" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:#cfb;">Population (mid year)<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#cfb;">Year </th> <th style="background:#cfb;"><a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> </th> <th style="background:#cfb;"><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza</a> </th> <th style="background:#cfb;">Total </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">1970</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.69</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.34</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.03 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">1980</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.90</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.46</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.36 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">1990</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.25</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.65</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.90 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">2000</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.98</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.13</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.11 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">2004</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.20</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.30</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.50 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">2008</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.41</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.5</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.91 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">2010</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.52</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.60</td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.12 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"><small>Source: <a href="/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Census Bureau">U.S. Census Bureau</a> </small> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">2006</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.5</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.5</td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">2009</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.48</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.45</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.94 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align:left;"><small>Source: <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Central_Bureau_of_Statistics" title="Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</a></small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Region </th> <th>Population </th></tr> <tr> <td>West Bank </td> <td>2,568,555<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>East Jerusalem </td> <td>192,800<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Gaza Strip </td> <td>1,657,155<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Population<br />(2007)<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Area (km<sup>2</sup>)</th> <th>Density<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a></td> <td>2,369,700</td> <td>5,671</td> <td>417.86 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></td> <td>1,416,539</td> <td>360</td> <td>3934.83 </td></tr> <tr> <th>Total</th> <th>3,786,239</th> <th>6,031</th> <th>627.80 </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3></div> <p>The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are Muslims. Almost the entire <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Palestine" title="Islam in Palestine">Palestinian Muslim</a> population is <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a>, although few dozen converts to <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyya</a> Islam resides in West Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Palestinian constitution, article 4: "<a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> is the official religion of <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestine</a>. Respect for the sanctity of all other divine religions shall be maintained".<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Christians constitute about 1–2% of population of Palestinian territories.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Christian population of Gaza is estimated at 3,000.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are about 370 <a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a> in West Bank village of <a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Luza" title="Kiryat Luza">Kiryat Luza</a> on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Gerizim" title="Mount Gerizim">Mount Gerizim</a> who hold both Palestinian and Israeli citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of Jewish settlers in West Bank is estimated at 341,000 as of the end of 2012 and over 200,000 in East Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language">Language</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> is the official language in the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Arabic" title="Palestinian Arabic">Palestinian Arabic</a> is the vernacular. <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> are widely spoken. 16.1% of the population are Israeli settlers who mostly speak Hebrew as their native language, and Hebrew is a second or third language to many Palestinians.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h2></div> <p>The Constitution of the League of Arab States says the existence and independence of Palestine cannot be questioned de jure even though the outward signs of this independence have remained veiled as a result of force majeure.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The League supervised the Egyptian trusteeship of the Palestinian government in Gaza after the termination of the British Mandate and secured assurances from Jordan that the 1950 Act of Union was "without prejudice to the final settlement".<sup id="cite_ref-WhitemanII_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WhitemanII-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 1988 declaration, the PNC empowered its central council to form a <a href="/wiki/Government-in-exile" title="Government-in-exile">government-in-exile</a> when appropriate, and called upon its executive committee to perform the duties of the government-in-exile until its establishment.<sup id="cite_ref-Sayighp624_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sayighp624-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the terms of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the PLO, the latter assumed control over the <a href="/wiki/Jericho" title="Jericho">Jericho</a> area of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on 17 May 1994. On 28 September 1995, following the signing of the Israeli–Palestinian <a href="/wiki/Interim_Agreement_on_the_West_Bank_and_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip">Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip</a>, Israeli military forces withdrew from the West Bank towns of <a href="/wiki/Nablus" title="Nablus">Nablus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ramallah" title="Ramallah">Ramallah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jericho" title="Jericho">Jericho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jenin" title="Jenin">Jenin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tulkarem" class="mw-redirect" title="Tulkarem">Tulkarem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qalqilya" title="Qalqilya">Qalqilya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a>. In December 1995, the PLO also assumed responsibility for civil administration in 17 areas in <a href="/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron">Hebron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Eurp905_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurp905-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the PLO assumed these responsibilities as a result of Oslo, a new temporary interim administrative body was set up as a result of the Accords to carry out these functions on the ground: the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). </p><p>An analysis outlining the relationship between the PLO, the PNA (PA), Palestine and Israel in light of the interim arrangements set out in the Oslo Accords begins by stating that, "Palestine may best be described as a transitional association between the PA and the PLO." It goes on to explain that this transitional association accords the PA responsibility for local government and the PLO responsibility for representation of the Palestinian people in the international arena, while prohibiting it from concluding international agreements that affect the status of the occupied territories. This situation is said to be accepted by the Palestinian population insofar as it is viewed as a temporary arrangement.<sup id="cite_ref-Dajanip121_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dajanip121-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza (2007)</a>, the two separate territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, are divided into a Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip and a <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a> civil leadership in the autonomous areas of the West Bank. Each sees itself as the administrator of all Palestinian Territories and does not acknowledge the other one as the official government of the territories. The Palestinian Territories have therefore <i>de facto</i> split into two entities. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palestine_election_map.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Palestine_election_map.PNG/220px-Palestine_election_map.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Palestine_election_map.PNG/330px-Palestine_election_map.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Palestine_election_map.PNG/440px-Palestine_election_map.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1115" data-file-height="1530" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority">Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Governorates">Governorates</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority">Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority</a></div> <p>After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian territories were divided 16 governorates under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority. Since 2007 there are two governments claiming to be the legitimate government of the Palestinian National Authority, one based in the West Bank and one based in the Gaza Strip. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Bank_Areas">West Bank Areas</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_Accord" class="mw-redirect" title="West Bank Areas in the Oslo II Accord">West Bank Areas in the Oslo II Accord</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Area_A.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Hebrew roadside sign in red." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Area_A.JPG/170px-Area_A.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Area_A.JPG/255px-Area_A.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Area_A.JPG/340px-Area_A.JPG 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Israeli signpost warning Israeli citizens that entry into Area 'A' is forbidden, life-endangering, and constitutes a criminal offense</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Oslo_II_Accord" title="Oslo II Accord">Oslo II Accord</a> created three temporary distinct administrative divisions in the Palestinian territories, the Areas <i>A</i>, <i>B</i> and <i>C</i>, until a final status accord would be established. The areas are not contiguous, but rather fragmented depending on the different population areas as well as <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> military requirements. </p> <ul><li><i>Area A</i> (full civil and security control by the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian Authority</a>): circa 3% of the West Bank, exclusive East-Jerusalem (first phase, 1995).<sup id="cite_ref-Oslo_2_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oslo_2-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-map1_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-map1-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011: 18%.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Oslo-map_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oslo-map-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This area includes all Palestinian cities and their surrounding areas, with no Israeli settlements. Entry into this area is forbidden to all Israeli citizens. The <a href="/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> occasionally enters the area to conduct raids to arrest suspected militants.</li> <li><i>Area B</i> (Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli–Palestinian security control): circa 25% (first phase, 1995).<sup id="cite_ref-Oslo_2_149-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oslo_2-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-map1_150-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-map1-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011: 21%.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_151-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Oslo-map_152-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oslo-map-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Includes areas of many Palestinian towns and villages and areas, with no Israeli settlements.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Area_C_(West_Bank)" title="Area C (West Bank)">Area C</a></i> (full Israeli civil and security control, except over Palestinian civilians): circa 72% (first phase, 1995).<sup id="cite_ref-Oslo_2_149-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oslo_2-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-map1_150-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-map1-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011: 61%.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_151-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Oslo-map_152-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oslo-map-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These areas include all Israeli settlements (cities, towns, and villages), nearby land, most roadways that connected the settlements (and which Israelis are now restricted to) as well as strategic areas described as "security zones."<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_151-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were 1,000 Israeli settlers living in Area C in 1972. By 1993, their population had increased to 110,000. As of 2012<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occupied_Palestinian_territories&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> they number more than 300,000 – as against 150,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom are Bedouin and <i><a href="/wiki/Fellahin" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellahin">fellahin</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Palestine" title="History of Palestine">History of Palestine</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Gaza Strip">History of the Gaza Strip</a>, and <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Palestinian people">History of the Palestinian people</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks vcard hlist"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><div class="sidebar-pretitle" style="margin: -0.2em 0; font-size:69%; font-weight:normal;">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:History_of_Palestine_(region)" title="Category:History of Palestine (region)">a series</a> on the</div></th> </tr><tr> <th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style=""><a href="/wiki/History_of_Palestine" title="History of Palestine">History of <span class="fn org label">Palestine</span></a></th> </tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0.4em; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;font-size:50%;line-height:0.5em;border-bottom:none;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jerusalem-2013(2)-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_(SE_exposure).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Jerusalem-2013%282%29-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_%28SE_exposure%29.jpg/150px-Jerusalem-2013%282%29-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_%28SE_exposure%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Jerusalem-2013%282%29-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_%28SE_exposure%29.jpg/225px-Jerusalem-2013%282%29-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_%28SE_exposure%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Jerusalem-2013%282%29-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_%28SE_exposure%29.jpg/300px-Jerusalem-2013%282%29-Temple_Mount-Dome_of_the_Rock_%28SE_exposure%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7500" data-file-height="5425" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c"><a href="/wiki/Prehistory_of_the_Levant" title="Prehistory of the Levant">Prehistory</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Natufian_culture" title="Natufian culture">Natufian culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic" title="Pre-Pottery Neolithic">Pre-Pottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahunian" title="Tahunian">Tahunian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghassulian" title="Ghassulian">Ghassulian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jericho" title="Jericho">Jericho</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Ancient history</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="New Kingdom of Egypt">Egyptian Empire</a></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"> <a href="/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah" title="History of ancient Israel and Judah">Ancient Israel and Judah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">Israel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Judah</a>)</div></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philistia" title="Philistia">Philistia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philistines" title="Philistines">Philistines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Assyrian_Empire" title="Neo-Assyrian Empire">Neo-Assyrian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Babylonian_Empire" title="Neo-Babylonian Empire">Neo-Babylonian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Classical period</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_Palestine" title="Hellenistic Palestine">Hellenistic Palestine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hasmonean_kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasmonean kingdom">Hasmonean kingdom</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Palestine" title="Roman Palestine">Roman Palestine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Herodian_kingdom" title="Herodian kingdom">Herodian kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judaea_(Roman_province)" title="Judaea (Roman province)">Province of Judaea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria_Palaestina" title="Syria Palaestina">Syria Palaestina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_the_East" title="Diocese of the East">Diocese of the East</a> (<a href="/wiki/Palaestina_Prima" title="Palaestina Prima">Palaestina Prima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palaestina_Secunda" title="Palaestina Secunda">Secunda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palaestina_Salutaris" title="Palaestina Salutaris">Salutaris</a>))</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c"><a href="/wiki/Muslim_history_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim history in Palestine">Islamic rule</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_the_Levant" title="Muslim conquest of the Levant">Muslim conquest</a></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"> <a href="/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Rashidun Caliphate">Rashidun</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jund_Filastin" title="Jund Filastin">Jund Filastin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jund_al-Urdunn" title="Jund al-Urdunn">Jund al-Urdunn</a>) </div></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem" title="Kingdom of Jerusalem">Crusader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate" title="Mamluk Sultanate">Mamluk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman Palestine">Ottoman</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Modern era</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakba" title="Nakba">Nakba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All-Palestine_Protectorate" title="All-Palestine Protectorate">All-Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">Jordanian West Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip_by_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt">Egyptian Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Israel#State_of_Israel_(1948–present)" title="History of Israel">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">State of Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_Military_Governorate" title="Israeli Military Governorate">Military Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_Civil_Administration" title="Israeli Civil Administration">Israeli Civil Administration</a></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Palestinian enclaves</a>; <br /><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian Authority</a>; <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>; <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip#History" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>)</div></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="border-top:#aaa 1px solid; border-bottom:#aaa 1px solid;"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/32px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/48px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/64px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Palestine" title="Portal:Palestine">Palestine portal</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:History_of_Palestine" title="Template:History of Palestine"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:History_of_Palestine" title="Template talk:History of Palestine"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:History_of_Palestine" title="Special:EditPage/Template:History of Palestine"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 1922, after the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> that ruled <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Syria" title="Ottoman Syria">Greater Syria</a> for four centuries (1517–1917), the <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">British Mandate for Palestine</a> was established. Large-scale Jewish immigration from abroad, mainly from <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a> took place during the British Mandate, though Jewish immigration started during the Ottoman period.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mark_A._Tessler_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mark_A._Tessler-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The future of Palestine was hotly disputed between Arabs and Jews. In 1947, the total Jewish ownership of land in Palestine was 1,850,000 dunams or 1,850 square kilometres (714 sq mi), which is 7.04% of the total land of Palestine.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Public property or "crown lands", the bulk of which was in the Negev, belonging to the government of Palestine may have made up as much as 70% of the total land; with the Arabs, Christians and others owning the rest.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The 1947 <a href="/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 UN Partition Plan">United Nations Partition Plan</a> proposed a division of Mandate Palestine between an Arab and a Jewish state, with <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> and the surrounding area to be a <i><a href="/wiki/Corpus_separatum_(Jerusalem)" title="Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)">corpus separatum</a></i> under a special international regime. The regions allotted to the proposed Arab state included what became the Gaza Strip, and almost all of what became the West Bank, as well as other areas. </p><p>The Partition Plan was passed by the UN General Assembly in November 1947. The Partition Plan was accepted by the Jewish leadership, but rejected by the Arab leaders. The Arab League threatened to take military measures to prevent the partition of Palestine and to ensure the national rights of the Palestinian Arab population. One day before the expiration of the British Mandate for Palestine, on 14 May 1948, Israel declared its independence within the borders of the Jewish State set out in the Partition Plan. US President Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel <i>de facto</i> the following day. The Arab countries declared war on the newly formed State of Israel heralding the start of the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Arab countries announced "an intervention in Palestine to restore law and order", heralding the start of the <a href="/wiki/1948_Palestine_War" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 Palestine War">1948 Palestine War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-arab_league_declaration_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arab_league_declaration-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable secondary sources. (May 2013)">non-primary source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war" class="mw-redirect" title="1947–1949 Palestine war">1947–1949 Palestine war</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1949_Armistice_Agreements" title="1949 Armistice Agreements">1949 Armistice Agreements</a> established the separation lines between the combatants, leaving Israel in control of some of the areas designated for the Arab state under the Partition Plan, Transjordan in control of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Egypt in control of the Gaza Strip and Syria in control of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Himmah_Area&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Himmah Area (page does not exist)">Himmah Area</a>. </p><p>In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank. Only the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> formally recognized the annexation of the West Bank, excluding the case of East Jerusalem which was <i>de facto</i> recognized.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Gaza Strip the Arab League formed the <a href="/wiki/All-Palestine_Government" title="All-Palestine Government">All-Palestine Government</a>, which operated under <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip_by_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt">Egypt occupation</a>. </p><p>Article 24 of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Covenant" title="Palestinian National Covenant">Palestinian National Covenant</a> of 1964, which established the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> stated: "This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan</a>, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area" (i.e. the areas of the former Mandate Palestine controlled by Jordan, Egypt and Syria, respectively). </p><p>Israel captured both territories in the 1967 Six-Day War, as well as other territory belonging to Egypt and Syria. Since then, these territories have been designated <a href="/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories" title="Israeli-occupied territories">Israeli-occupied territories</a>. Immediately after the war, on 19 June 1967, the Israeli government offered to return the <a href="/wiki/Golan_Heights" title="Golan Heights">Golan Heights</a> to Syria, the Sinai to Egypt and most of the West Bank to Jordan in exchange for peace. At the <a href="/wiki/1967_Arab_League_summit" title="1967 Arab League summit">Khartoum Summit</a> in September, the Arab parties responded to this overture by declaring "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with Israel."<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_242" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council Resolution 242">UN Security Council Resolution 242</a> introduced the "<a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_242#Semantic_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council Resolution 242">Land for Peace</a>" formula for normalizing relations between Israel and its neighbors. This formula was used when Israel returned the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a> to Egypt in 1979 in exchange for a <a href="/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_peace_treaty" title="Egypt–Israel peace treaty">peace treaty</a>. While that treaty mentioned a "linkage" between Israeli–Egyptian peace and Palestinian autonomy, the formerly Egyptian-occupied territory in Gaza was excluded from the agreement, and remained under Israeli control. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Oslo_Accords" title="Oslo Accords">Oslo Accords</a> of the early 1990s between the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a> and Israel led to the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Authority" title="Palestinian Authority">Palestinian Authority</a>. This was an interim organization created to administer a limited form of Palestinian self-governance in the territories for a period of five years during which final-status negotiations would take place. The Palestinian Authority carried civil responsibility in some rural areas, as well as security responsibility in the major cities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Although the five-year interim period expired in 1999, the final status agreement has yet to be concluded despite attempts such as the <a href="/wiki/Camp_David_2000_Summit" class="mw-redirect" title="Camp David 2000 Summit">2000 Camp David Summit</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Taba_summit" class="mw-redirect" title="Taba summit">Taba summit</a>, and the unofficial <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Accords_(2003)" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Accords (2003)">Geneva Accords</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:786px;max-width:786px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Modern evolution of Palestine <div style="float: right;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Palestinian_territory_development" title="Template:Palestinian territory development"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Palestinian_territory_development" title="Template talk:Palestinian territory development"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Palestinian_territory_development" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Palestinian territory development"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg/258px-Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg/387px-Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg/516px-Proposals_for_the_Mandate_of_Palestine_1916-19.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>1916–1922 various proposals</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">Three proposals for the post World War I administration of Palestine. The red line is the "International Administration" proposed in the 1916 <a href="/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement" title="Sykes–Picot Agreement">Sykes–Picot Agreement</a>, the dashed blue line is the 1919 <a href="/wiki/World_Zionist_Organization" title="World Zionist Organization">Zionist Organization</a> proposal at the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Peace_Conference_(1919%E2%80%931920)" title="Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)">Paris Peace Conference</a>, and the thin blue line refers to the final borders of the 1923–48 <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>.</span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg/258px-Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg/387px-Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg/516px-Peel_map_1937_Palestine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>1937 British proposal</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">The first official proposal for partition, published in 1937 by the <a href="/wiki/Peel_Commission" title="Peel Commission">Peel Commission</a>. An ongoing British Mandate was proposed to keep "the sanctity of <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a>", in the form of an enclave from Jerusalem to <a href="/wiki/Jaffa" title="Jaffa">Jaffa</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Lydda" class="mw-redirect" title="Lydda">Lydda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ramle" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramle">Ramle</a>.</span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg/258px-United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg/387px-United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg/516px-United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>1947 UN proposal</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">Proposal per the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine" title="United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine">United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine</a> (UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), 1947), prior to the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>. The proposal included a <a href="/wiki/Corpus_separatum_(Jerusalem)" title="Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)">Corpus Separatum for Jerusalem</a>, extraterritorial crossroads between the non-contiguous areas, and <a href="/wiki/Jaffa" title="Jaffa">Jaffa</a> as an Arab exclave.</span></div></div></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:786px;max-width:786px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine,_1947.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine%2C_1947.svg/258px-Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine%2C_1947.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine%2C_1947.svg/387px-Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine%2C_1947.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine%2C_1947.svg/516px-Jewish_and_Arab_Land_Ownership_in_Mandatory_Palestine%2C_1947.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>1947 Jewish private land ownership</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine" title="Jewish land purchase in Palestine">Jewish-owned lands in Mandatory Palestine</a> as of 1947 in blue, constituting 7.4% of the total land area, of which more than half was held by the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund" title="Jewish National Fund">JNF</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Jewish_Colonization_Association" title="Palestine Jewish Colonization Association">PICA</a>. White is either <a href="/wiki/Public_land" title="Public land">public land</a> or <a href="/wiki/Palestinian-Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian-Arab">Palestinian-Arab</a>-owned lands including related religious trusts.</span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip,_1948-67.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip%2C_1948-67.svg/258px-Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip%2C_1948-67.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip%2C_1948-67.svg/387px-Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip%2C_1948-67.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip%2C_1948-67.svg/516px-Jordanian-annexed_West_Bank_and_Egyptian-occupied_Gaza_Strip%2C_1948-67.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b><a href="/wiki/1949_armistice_lines" class="mw-redirect" title="1949 armistice lines">1949 armistice lines</a></b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">The <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Jordanian annexation of the West Bank">Jordanian-annexed West Bank</a> (light green) and <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Gaza Strip">Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip</a> (dark green), after the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>, showing <a href="/wiki/Green_Line_(Israel)" title="Green Line (Israel)">1949 armistice lines</a>.</span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel,1967-94.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C1967-94.svg/258px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C1967-94.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C1967-94.svg/387px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C1967-94.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C1967-94.svg/516px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C1967-94.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>1967 territorial changes</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">During the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a>, Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the <a href="/wiki/Golan_Heights" title="Golan Heights">Golan Heights</a>, together with the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a> (later traded for peace after the <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a>). In 1980–81 Israel <a href="/wiki/Positions_on_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Positions on Jerusalem">annexed East Jerusalem</a> and <a href="/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law" title="Golan Heights Law">the Golan Heights</a>. Neither Israel's annexation nor the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">PLO</a> claim over East Jerusalem gained international recognition.</span></div></div></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:709px;max-width:709px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel,_1994-2006.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_1994-2006.svg/258px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_1994-2006.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_1994-2006.svg/387px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_1994-2006.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_1994-2006.svg/516px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_1994-2006.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>1995 <a href="/wiki/Oslo_II_Accord" title="Oslo II Accord">Oslo II Accord</a></b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">Under the <a href="/wiki/Oslo_Accords" title="Oslo Accords">Oslo Accords</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a> was created to provide a Palestinian interim self-government in the West Bank and the interior of the Gaza Strip. Its second phase envisioned "<a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Palestinian enclaves</a>".</span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:260px;max-width:260px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel,_2006.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_2006.svg/258px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_2006.svg.png" decoding="async" width="258" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_2006.svg/387px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_2006.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_2006.svg/516px-Palestinian_National_Authority_within_Israel%2C_2006.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1233" data-file-height="2291" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>2005–present</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">After the <a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli disengagement from Gaza">Israeli disengagement from Gaza</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict" title="Fatah–Hamas conflict">clashes between the two main Palestinian parties</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_legislative_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian legislative election, 2006">Hamas electoral victory</a>, two separate executive governments took control in the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian territories">Palestinian territories</a> of the West Bank and Gaza.</span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:183px;max-width:183px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png/181px-Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png" decoding="async" width="181" height="479" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png/272px-Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png/362px-Demographic_map_of_Palestine_-_Israel_-_with_Legend.png 2x" data-file-width="3186" data-file-height="8440" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><b>Ethnic majority by settlement (present)</b>: <span style="font-size:85%;">The map indicates the <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_majority" title="Ethnic majority">ethnic majority</a> of settlements (cities, villages and other communities).</span></div></div></div></div></div> 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 June</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=House+of+Commons+International+Development+Committee+%E2%80%93+FINAL+REPORT+Vol+I+26+January+2004&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpublications.parliament.uk%2Fpa%2Fcm200304%2Fcmselect%2Fcmintdev%2F230%2F230.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupied+Palestinian+territories" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Julie Peteet (2005) Words as interventions: naming in the Palestine–Israel conflict, Third World Quarterly, 26:1, 153–172, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F0143659042000322964">10.1080/0143659042000322964</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Britlabour_and_Zionism-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Britlabour_and_Zionism_53-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoseph_GornyYosef_Gorni1983" class="citation book cs1">Joseph Gorny; Yosef Gorni (1983). <i>The British labour movement and Zionism, 1917–1948</i>. Routledge. p. 138. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7146-3162-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7146-3162-2"><bdi>978-0-7146-3162-2</bdi></a>. <q>The Jewish people have always regarded, and will continue to regard Palestine as a whole, as a single country which is theirs in a national sense and will become theirs once again. No Jew<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (May 2013)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Occupied_Palestinian_territories#Dubious" title="Talk:Occupied Palestinian territories">discuss</a></i>]</sup> will accept partition as a just and rightful solution.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+British+labour+movement+and+Zionism%2C+1917%E2%80%931948&rft.pages=138&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=978-0-7146-3162-2&rft.au=Joseph+Gorny&rft.au=Yosef+Gorni&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOccupied+Palestinian+territories" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Avi_Shlaim-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Avi_Shlaim_54-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShlaim2008" class="citation book cs1">Shlaim, Avi (2008). <i>The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World</i>. 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The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-untreaty1-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-untreaty1_57-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-untreaty1_57-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110928083906/http://untreaty.un.org/unts/144078_158780/11/6/4045.pdf">"United Nations – Office of Legal Affairs"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. United Nations. 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ICBS, STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF ISRAEL 2013, 5 March 2014. <b>Note:</b> different dates of counting is one of the reasons for differing statistics.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/">US Census Bureau International Programs</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131014185309/https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/">Archived</a> 14 October 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> International Data Base IDB West Bank and Gaza</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1661.pdf">Palestinians in figures 2009</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111222065327/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1661.pdf">Archived</a> 22 December 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics May 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/PressRelease/endyear2006_E.pdf">Palestinians at the End of Year 2006</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210211034256/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/PressRelease/endyear2006_E.pdf">Archived</a> 11 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(July 2010 est.) @ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/west-bank/">CIA The World Factbook</a>. This data plus 1.66 million in Gaza (resulting 4.23 million) agrees with the 4.1 million figure given by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics @ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtoudRK9JlaH26B1bdZITg6iUfsQ?do">Google Hosted News</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged June 2024">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Israeli settlers for <i>(2008 est.) (July 2011 est.)</i>  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] estimation @ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/west-bank/">CIA The World Factbook</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-131"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-131">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Estimation for July 2011 @ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/gaza-strip/">CIA The World Factbook</a>. This data plus 2.57 million in the West Bank (resulting 4.23 million) agrees with the 4.1 million figure given by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics @ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtoudRK9JlaH26B1bdZITg6iUfsQ?do">Google Hosted News</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged June 2024">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/pdf/pdf2008/Population.pdf">passia.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120924060254/http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/pdf/pdf2008/Population.pdf">Archived</a> 24 September 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Palestine facts – Population.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As stated in <a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density" class="mw-redirect" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density">List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density</a>, in 2010, the total density raised to 681, ranking the 20th biggest of this list.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160927051624/https://www.rabwah.net/myths-facts-israel-palestine-conflict-ahmadiyya-qadiani/">"Myths & Facts: Israel-Palestine conflict and the Ahmadiyya"</a>. 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title="Philistines">Philistines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_the_Levant" title="Muslim conquest of the Levant">Islamic Rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem" title="Kingdom of Jerusalem">Crusaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Ayyubid Dynasty">Ayyubid Dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate" title="Mamluk Sultanate">Mamluk Dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="History of the State of Palestine">Modern history</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Palestinians" title="History of the Palestinians">History of the Palestinians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Palestine" title="Slavery in Palestine">Slavery in Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_nationalism" title="Palestinian nationalism">Palestinian nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">British Mandate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakba" title="Nakba">Nakba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Palestinian Declaration of Independence">Palestinian Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_the_Palestinian_territories" title="List of years in the Palestinian territories">Years in the Palestinian territories</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Conflict</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Israeli–Palestinian conflict">Israeli–Palestinian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war" class="mw-redirect" title="1947–1949 Palestine war">1947–1949 Palestine war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 Palestinian exodus">1948 Palestinian exodus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_insurgency_in_South_Lebanon" title="Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon">Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War" title="1982 Lebanon War">First Lebanon War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Intifada" title="First Intifada">First Intifada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Intifada" title="Second Intifada">Second Intifada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)" title="Gaza War (2008–2009)">Gaza War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Israel–Hamas war">Israel–Hamas war</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Black_September" title="Black September">Black September</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings" title="Dawson's Field hijackings">Dawson's Field hijackings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict" title="Fatah–Hamas conflict">Fatah–Hamas conflict</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Hamas_political_violence_in_Gaza" title="2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza">2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;">Hamas-Salafist conflict</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rafah_(2009)" title="Battle of Rafah (2009)">Hamas-Jund Ansar Allah clash</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Geography of the State of Palestine">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves" title="Palestinian enclaves">Enclaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Northern West Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judea" title="Judea">Southern West Bank</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Borders_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Borders of the State of Palestine">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_administered_by_the_Palestinian_Authority" title="List of cities administered by the Palestinian Authority">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Palestine" title="Governorates of Palestine">Governorates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Landforms_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Landforms of the State of Palestine">Landforms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_depopulated_during_the_1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_war" title="List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war">Depopulated villages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of World Heritage Sites in the State of Palestine">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="Politics of the Palestinian National Authority">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a> (<a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="International recognition of the State of Palestine">International recognition</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of political parties in the State of Palestine">Political parties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine">DFLP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Democratic_Union" title="Palestinian Democratic Union">FIDA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Initiative" title="Palestinian National Initiative">Palestinian National Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_People%27s_Party" title="Palestinian People's Party">PPP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine">PFLP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Way_(Palestinian_political_party)" title="Third Way (Palestinian political party)">Third Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Popular_Struggle_Front" title="Palestinian Popular Struggle Front">PPSF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return" title="Palestinian right of return">Palestinian right of return</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence" title="Palestinian political violence">Palestinian political violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine" title="Elections in Palestine">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_status_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Legal status of the State of Palestine">Legal status of the State of Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Palestinianism" title="Anti-Palestinianism">Anti-Palestinianism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Palestine" title="Government of Palestine">West Bank (SOP-controlled)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Prime Minister of the State of Palestine">Prime Minister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="President of the State of Palestine">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Council" title="Palestinian National Council">Palestinian National Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_law" title="Palestinian law">Judicial system</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hamas_government_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Hamas government in the Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip (Hamas-controlled)</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh" title="Ismail Haniyeh">Prime Minister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aziz_Dweik" title="Aziz Dweik">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_for_the_Propagation_of_Virtue_and_the_Prevention_of_Vice_(Gaza_Strip)" title="Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Gaza Strip)">Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Security</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Security_Forces" title="Palestinian National Security Forces">Palestinian National Security Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Preventive_Security" title="Palestinian Preventive Security">Palestinian Preventive Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_security_assistance_to_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="United States security assistance to the Palestinian National Authority">United States security assistance to the Palestinian National Authority</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Foreign relations of the State of Palestine">Foreign affairs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_and_the_United_Nations" title="Palestine and the United Nations">Palestine and the United Nations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_and_Expatriates_(State_of_Palestine)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (State of Palestine)">Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of diplomatic missions of the State of Palestine">Diplomatic missions of Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Palestine" title="List of diplomatic missions in Palestine">Diplomatic missions in Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_aid_to_Palestinians" title="International aid to Palestinians">International aid to Palestinians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Economy of the State of Palestine">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Companies_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Companies of the State of Palestine">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Agriculture in Palestine">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Communications in the State of Palestine">Communications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Exchange" title="Palestine Exchange">Stock Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Taxation in the State of Palestine">Taxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Tourism in the State of Palestine">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Transport in the State of Palestine">Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Water supply and sanitation in the State of Palestine">Water supply and sanitation</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Monetary_Authority" title="Palestine Monetary Authority">Palestine Monetary Authority</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Society of the State of Palestine">Society</a> and<br /><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Palestine" title="Culture of Palestine">culture</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Christians" title="Palestinian Christians">Palestinian Christians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora" title="Palestinian diaspora">Diaspora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_refugee_camps" title="Palestinian refugee camps">Refugee camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_citizens_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian citizens of Israel">Palestinian citizens of Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levantine_archaeology#Archaeology_in_the_West_Bank" title="Levantine archaeology">Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Palestine" title="Architecture of Palestine">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_art" title="Palestinian art">Art</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Watermelon_as_a_Palestinian_symbol" title="Watermelon as a Palestinian symbol">watermelon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Palestine" title="Cinema of Palestine">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_traditional_costumes" title="Palestinian traditional costumes">Costume and embroidery</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_keffiyeh" title="Palestinian keffiyeh">keffiyeh</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_cuisine" title="Palestinian cuisine">Cuisine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Palestinian_wine" title="Palestinian wine">wine</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dabke" title="Dabke">Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Demographics of the Palestinian territories">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Education in the State of Palestine">Education</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="List of universities and colleges in the State of Palestine">universities and colleges</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Palestine" title="Flag of Palestine">Flag of Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_handicrafts" title="Palestinian handicrafts">Handicrafts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Health in the State of Palestine">Health</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Healthcare in the State of Palestine">Health care</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mental_health_in_Palestine" title="Mental health in Palestine">Mental healthcare</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Human rights in the State of Palestine">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="LGBT rights in the State of Palestine">LGBT rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Arabic" title="Palestinian Arabic">Language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_literature" title="Palestinian literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Palestine" title="Music of Palestine">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Palestinians" title="List of Palestinians">Personalities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the Palestinian National Authority">Postage stamps and history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Prostitution in the State of Palestine">Prostitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Palestine" title="Public holidays in Palestine">Public holidays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racism_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Racism in the State of Palestine">Racism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Religion_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Religion in the State of Palestine">Religion</a> (<a href="/wiki/Category:Religious_buildings_and_structures_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Religious buildings and structures in the State of Palestine">Religious buildings</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_sport_in_Palestine" title="History of sport in Palestine">Sport</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Football_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Football in the State of Palestine">Football</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mass_media_in_the_State_of_Palestine_by_city" title="Category:Mass media in the State of Palestine by city">By city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Books_about_Palestinians" title="Category:Books about Palestinians">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Palestinian_journalists" title="Category:Palestinian journalists">Journalists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Newspapers_published_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Newspapers published in the State of Palestine">Newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Photography_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Photography in the State of Palestine">Photography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Radio_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Category:Radio in the State of Palestine">Radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Television_in_the_State_of_Palestine" title="Television in the State of Palestine">Television</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma%27an_News_Agency" title="Ma'an News Agency">Ma'an News 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