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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.
Israel vs Hezbollah Inner controls, outer sieges (or strong enemy pressure); Enemy pressure from one side; Small icon within a larger icon: The situation in individual neighbourhood/district Airport/Air base; Heliport/Helicopter base; Military base; Strategic hill; Oil/gas; Industrial complex; Border Post; Major port or naval base;
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 ...
A map shows Israel and the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, and Israel's borders with neighboring nations Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (not labelled) to ...
Prior to 1967, control of the Palestinian territories was split between Egypt and Jordan, which occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, respectively. The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights, where Israel has transferred parts of its population and built large settlements , is the longest military ...
Map of the Gaza Strip in May 2005, a few months prior to the Israeli withdrawal. The major settlement blocs were the blue-shaded regions of this map. The Gaza Strip has been under military occupation by Israel since 6 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Egypt, during the Six-Day War.
While the world is focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 55 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and ...
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. For an article on Palestine, attention should be on the West Bank and Gaza. My modification crops out Golon and the Negev desert to focus in on the West Bank and Gaza.