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On 27 June 1967, Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of West Jerusalem so as to include approximately 70 km 2 (27.0 sq mi) of West Bank territory today referred to as East Jerusalem, which included Jordanian East Jerusalem ( 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi) ) and 28 villages and areas of the Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities 64 km 2 (25 sq mi).
Report by World Bank Technical Team on Movement and Access Restrictions in the West Bank; National Lawyer's Guild Delegation; U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory; OCHA oPt map of West Bank closures - Jun 06; OCHA oPt map of East Jerusalem region closures - Jun 06
On 27 June 1967, Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of West Jerusalem so as to include approximately 70 km 2 (27.0 sq mi) of West Bank territory today referred to as East Jerusalem, which included Jordanian East Jerusalem ( 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi) ) and 28 villages and areas of the Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities 64 km 2 (25 sq mi).
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.
Jerusalem and the West Bank. The following locations were included within the borders of the Israeli municipality after its expansion following the 1967 Six-Day War, formalised in the 1980 Israeli Jerusalem Law: At-Tur; Beit Hanina; Beit Safafa; Jabel Mukaber; Jebel Batan al-Hawa; Kafr 'Aqab; Ras al-Amud; Sawahra al-Arbiya; Sharafat; Shuafat ...
East Jerusalem, Jewish areas, annexed by Israel Current Israeli extended boundary of the municipality and of the district of Jerusalem West Bank, Jewish areas in the new district of Samaria and Judea (zone C)
As of 2013, Area C formally comprised about 63% of the West Bank, including settlements, outposts and declared "state land". [2] Including or excluding annexed East Jerusalem, no-man's land and the Palestinian part of the Dead Sea also determines the percentage. John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State under the Obama administration, stated that ...
The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on 24 April 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on 31 July 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.