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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.
Samaria was a largely autonomous province nominally dependent on the Seleucid Empire. However, ... As a result of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, ...
The Hittin Battalion, led by the Iraqi Madlul Abbas, crossed the Jordan River on the Damia bridge on 29 January 1948 and dispersed in the mountains of Samaria. The two battalions that had come from Transjordan split into smaller units and deployed throughout Samaria.
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, ... Most of the inhabitants fled before and during the attack, reaching northern Samaria ...
The 1948 Palestine war [a] was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, ... They consolidated their presence in Galilee and Samaria. [61]
The territory first emerged in the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War as a region occupied and subsequently annexed by Jordan. Jordan ruled the territory until the 1967 Six-Day War, when it was occupied by Israel. Since then, Israel has administered the West Bank as the Judea and Samaria Area, expanding its claim into East Jerusalem in 1980 ...
King Ahab’s realm was in Samaria, what is now known by most as the occupied West Bank. ... Cumulatively, these recent displacements add to the estimated 750,000 Palestinians forced out of ...
The Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized: Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; [a] Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized: Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division used by the State of Israel to refer to the entire West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, but excludes East Jerusalem (see Jerusalem Law).