"Palestinian territories" and "occupied Palestinian territories" (OPT or oPt) are descriptions often used to describe the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip which are occupied or otherwise under the control of Israel.Israeli governments have maintained that the area involved is within territorial dispute. The extent of the territories, while subject to future negotiations, have frequently been defined by the Green Line. The term "Palestinian Territory, Occupied" had been utilized by the UN and other international organizations between 1998 to 2013 in order to refer to the Palestinian National Authority; it was replaced in UN Secretariat communications by the term State of Palestine starting in 2012, and the
ISO adopted the name change in 2013. However, as of August 2015, the UN Security Council continues to treat Palestine as a non-sovereign entity, which also prevents its admission to UN General Assembly membership.
Israel occupied the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War of 1967, which had been earlier occupied by Jordan and Egypt respectively, and has maintained control of them since.
At least 34,305 people have been killed by the Israeli military across Gaza since October 7 last year, when the regime launched the war on the besieged territory in response to Palestinian resistance movements’ Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.
Regretfully, the entity that occupied the Palestinian territories demands that the international community abstain from recognizing Palestine's membership, the Kuwaiti diplomat said.
UNRWA has 32,000 staff in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, including 13,000 in Gaza who provide education, health care, food and other services to several million Palestinians and their families.
... the Palestinian people. Pro-Hamas protesters may view the group as a legitimate resistance movement fighting against what they perceive as Israeli occupation and aggression in Palestinian territories.
The regime ignited its bloody war machine in the besieged Palestinian territory on that October day in response to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm conducted by the resistance movement Hamas.
Colleges and universities have become sites of student protests demanding a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and also that their schools divest from financial connections that support Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories.
UNRWA has 32,000 staff in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, including 13,000 in Gaza who provide education, health care, food and other services to several million Palestinians and their families.
The US has been seeking a temporary ceasefire in Gaza that would see Hamas release female, wounded, elderly and sick hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian detainees and the delivery of humanitarian aid into the war-torn territory.
The latest update comes after al-Hayya told Al Jazeera Arabic on Thursday that Hamas was serious about releasing captives but would only accept a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a complete halt of Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory.
A Palestinian medic cares for babies born pre-term at the Al Hilal Emirates Hospital in Rafah (Picture... More than half of the Palestinian territory’s 2.3 million population are thought to have fled to Rafah during the seven months of war.
A Palestinian medic cares for babies born pre-term at the Al Hilal Emirates Hospital in Rafah (Picture... More than half of the Palestinian territory’s 2.3 million population are thought to have fled to Rafah during the seven months of war.