"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 United States, its biggest ally, has been threatening to attack the Iranian territory in response to the country’s retaliatory strike against the occupied Palestinian territories in early October.
... and interrogated him repeatedly at a station in occupied territory ... officials to intervene on Loffredo's behalf and raised alarms about attacks on journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Two children were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several cities in the occupied territory, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the PalestinianPrisonerSociety said in a joint statement.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Sunday night that it downed one Israeli Hermes-900 drone which infiltrated Lebanese territory and forced another drone to retreat into the occupied Palestinian territory.
The UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has described Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip as “the collective shame of the century” ...
This comes as Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip say at least 26 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the besieged coastal territory since the start of the day.
The raft of apartheid legislation in the OccupiedPalestinian Territories, the brutal physical oppression experienced daily, and the speed at which land is being illegally annexed in violation of UN ...
The return of the displaced, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Strip, and the curbing of all its crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories rounded out the list.