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  2. Occupied Palestinian territories - Wikipedia

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    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 al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000. 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.

  3. Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip - Wikipedia

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    The Disengagement Plan was also criticized by both Israelis and other observers from the opposite viewpoint as an attempt to make permanent the different settlements of the West Bank, while the Gaza Strip was rendered to the Palestinian National Authority as an economically uninteresting territory with a Muslim population of nearly 1.4 million ...

  4. Israeli-occupied territories - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court of Israel has ruled that Israel is holding the West Bank under "belligerent occupation". [8] [9] However, successive Israeli governments have preferred the term "disputed territories" in the case of the West Bank, [10] [11] and Israel likewise maintains that the West Bank is disputed territory. [12]

  5. History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict - Wikipedia

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    The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.

  6. History of the State of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    The West Bank and Gaza Strip continued to be considered by the international community to be Occupied Palestinian Territory, notwithstanding the 1988 declaration of Palestinian independence, the limited self-government accorded to the Palestinian Authority as a result of the 1993 Oslo Accords, and Israel's withdrawal from Gaza as part of the ...

  7. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - explained

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    Israel’s military advance on the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and Egyptian Sinai in 1967 sparked fresh bloodshed and saw the UN Security Council pass Resolution 242 ordering it to ...

  8. Explainer-Israel-Palestinian dispute hinges on statehood ...

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    Two-state solution - an agreement that would create a state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip alongside Israel. Hamas rejects the two-state solution and is sworn to Israel's ...

  9. Status of territories occupied by Israel in 1967 - Wikipedia

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    During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai Peninsula was returned to full sovereignty of Egypt in 1982 as a result of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.