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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 Israel has withdrawn its military forces from the Gaza strip, but it continues to be designated the occupying power in the Gaza Strip by the United Nations, the United States and ...
- Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip ( / ˈɡɑːzə / ⓘ; [10] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ...
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
Towards the end of the Gulf War in Kuwait, Israel again...
- West Bank and Gaza Strip
West Bank and Gaza Strip may refer to: West Bank and Gaza...
- Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially...
- Gaza Strip
The West Bank ( Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized : aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized : HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit ), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip ).
The Gaza Strip ( / ˈɡɑːzə / ⓘ; [10] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣaz.za] ), or simply Gaza, is a polity and the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank ). On the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north.
Towards the end of the Gulf War in Kuwait, Israel again imposed a curfew on the West Bank (and Gaza) lasting seven weeks, causing devastating economic setbacks, with thousands of Palestinians fired from their jobs in Israel. Nablus was subject to total curfews for 200 days in two years (2002–2004).
Israel portal. Other countries. v. t. e. The status of territories captured by Israel is the status of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula, all of which were captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War .
West Bank and Gaza Strip may refer to: West Bank and Gaza Strip, two areas in the middle east; Palestinian territories, generally A,B and C areas within West Bank and Gaza Strip under control of the Palestinian Authority; State of Palestine, a partially recognized de jure sovereign UN observer state, de facto occupied by Israel
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The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on April 24, 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on July 31, 1988. The period started during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when Jordan occupied and subsequently annexed the portion of Mandatory Palestine that became known as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
