"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.
The IDF over the past year rescued more than 200 people—civilians and soldiers—from territories under the control of the PalestinianAuthority and other unsafe areas in Judea and Samaria, Brig.
Four Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Wednesday as army forces demolished two structures in the occupied territory, a local official said ...Nearly 785 Palestinians have ...
Gaza health officials say Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians, including a rescue worker, in the besieged Palestinian territory on Wednesday ... A Palestinian man was also killed in the regime’s tank shelling nearby the house, they said.
Israeli forces killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza, including a rescue worker, health officials said, as troops deepened an incursion along the territory's northern edge, bombarding a hospital and blowing up homes.
Gaza's civil defence agency said on Wednesday that at least 17 people, including a baby, were killed in Israeli air strikes on the war-ravaged Palestinian territory ... Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.
Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including a rescue worker, health officials said, as troops deepened an incursion along the territory’s northern edge, bombarding a hospital and blowing up homes.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including a rescue worker, health officials said, as troops deepened an incursion along the territory's ...
... and the world is contingent on implementing international legitimacy resolutions, ending Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, and recognizing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.