"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.
... case make a decisive difference in the political weight or legal authoritativeness of the outcome in this comprehensive legal scrutiny of Israel’s prolonged occupation of the Palestinian territories?.
The committee which prepared the report noted the action the Albanese government had taken on Palestine, which included adopting the official name ‘OccupiedPalestinian Territories’ consistent with ...
File/Reuters ... Militants also took scores of hostages that day ... Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 39,175Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry ... Agence France-Presse. . .
OTTAWA — Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau is calling for Israel to "respond substantively" to the top United Nations court's recent advisory opinion that Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and that it should end ... .
“The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying Power, through annexation and an assertion of permanent control over the OccupiedPalestinianTerritory and continued frustration of the ...
The court considered the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza as one unit, and the illegalities it found are applicable to the entirety of that unit. The Palestinian ...
... called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and asked Israel to respond to a United Nations court which last week ruled its occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there were illegal.
It came after Arab heads of state called at a summit in May for the deployment of UN peacekeepers across the occupied Palestinian territories, an idea strongly opposed by Israel... The Palestinian ...
In an address to Congress on Wednesday, American lawmakers applauded in multiple intervals Netanyahu’s recount of the Tel Aviv regime’s genocidal war in the Palestinian territory over the past ten months.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories ... A group supporting Israeli hostages still held in the Palestinian territory welcomed the rescue but alleged “sabotage” of efforts to free others ... Palestinian medical ...
The ICJ, in a public session at its headquarters in The Hague, affirmed that Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal and must end as soon as possible, in its strongest decision on the Palestinian issue to date.