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The occupied Palestinian territories, also referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the Palestinian territories, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip —two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.
Since 1979, the United Nations Security Council, [58] the United Nations General Assembly, [37] the United States, [59] the EU, [60] the International Court of Justice, [61] and the International Committee of the Red Cross [38] refer to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as occupied Palestinian territory or the occupied territories ...
On 31 December 2014 Palestinian President Abbas signed a declaration in which Palestine recognized the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for any crimes committed in the Palestinian territory since 13 June 2014. [131] The UN now can also help to affirm the borders of the Palestinian territories that Israel occupied in 1967. [132]
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
The Oslo II Accord divided the Israeli-occupied West Bank into three administrative divisions: the Palestinian enclaves as "Areas A and B" and the remainder, including Israeli settlements, as "Area C". The Palestinian enclaves were created by a process of subtraction by allocating to Area C everything that the Israeli government considered ...
Outline of the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Flag. The Coat of arms of Palestine. A map of the State of Palestine with the West Bank and Gaza Strip highlighted in red. An enlargeable map of the West Bank. An enlargeable map of the Gaza Strip. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the State of Palestine:
The Palestinian territories are the two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967, namely the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has referred to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as "the Occupied ...
[106] [r] This interpretation is a minority position, and international law considers all the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) to be occupied territory [108] and call for Palestinians in the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem) to be given self-determination [109]