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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.
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) that make up the State of Palestine.
A map of Jordan. Jordan is situated geographically in West Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq, northwest of Saudi Arabia, east of Israel and the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. The area is also referred to as the Middle or Near East. Its territory covers about 91,880 square kilometres (35,480 sq mi).
The natural geographic boundary of the West Bank, as the name implies, is the Jordan River. To the Territories belong the territorial waters of the Gaza Strip and the part of the Dead Sea between the West Bank and the Jordan border-line (see adjacent CIA map), [1] which are also completely controlled by Israel.
The Allenby Bridge (Hebrew: גשר אלנבי, romanized: Gesher Allenby), known officially in Jordan as the King Hussein Bridge (Arabic: جسر الملك حسين, romanized: Jisr al-Malek Hussein), is a bridge that crosses the Jordan River near the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the town of Al-Karameh in Jordan.
The details are regulated by the Israel–Jordan peace treaty of 1994, which establishes an "administrative boundary" between Jordan and the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, without prejudice to the status of that territory. [4] Israel has allocated 86% of the land, in the West Bank portion of the valley, to Israeli settlements.
English: Map of the Middle East showing Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon including Gaza, Golan Heights and West Bank. العربية: خريطة دولة إسرائيل والأراضي الفلسطينية التي تشمل الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة والجولان السوري المحتل.
(public domain) in which the three Occupied Territories, the West Bank, Gaza, and Golon, are given the same brown color as Israel's neighboring countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. ChrisO colors the West Bank, Gaza, and Golon light green and renames the map "Israel and the Occupied Territories." However Golon is Syrian, not Palestinian.