"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.
CAIRO. Egyptian diplomatic sources have denied rumors that Cairo discussed the eastern Mediterranean issue with Turkey... Cairo also has “no intentions” of negotiating with Turkey over the issue, they said ... In 2019, Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Italy and the Palestinian territories held the EastMed GasForum, which did not include Turkey ... ....
Last month, the parent organization, for the first time in its long history, openly announced that it raised money for further land grab in the occupied Palestinian territories in favor of establishing more illegal settlements for Zionists, which are condemned globally.
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Last month, the parent organization, for the first time in its long history, openly announced that it raised money for further land grab in the occupied Palestinian territories in favor of establishing more Jewish-only settlements, which are condemned globally.
Back in October 2020, Michael Lynk, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said the administrative detention is a penal system that is “ripe for abuse.” ... Israeli forces frequently detain Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories.
Regardless of the existence of the PA penal code and judiciary, which operate with limited autonomy in parts of the occupied territory, all Palestinians, wherever they reside in the West Bank, remain subject to the jurisdiction of Israel’s military courts if they fall foul of certain laws.
... along he referred to the PalestinianAuthority as “the body that oversees parts of the occupied territories.” As in his previous article, where his only cited authority for the “Israeli occupation” was the director of a Palestinian advocacy group, Kingsley closed by quoting Ms.
In 2019, for comparison, women held 30.3 percent of managerial positions in the occupied territories ... Meanwhile, thirty-five female Palestinian prisoners are currently behind bars in the occupied territories, a local NGO announced ahead of the International Women’s Day, noting that eleven of the prisoners are mothers.
It is one of the highest figures since the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the Palestinian territory ... The Palestinian ... Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Palestinian territories (Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem) have reported over 223,000 cases and 2,365 deaths.
The US is “totally ignored the legitimate rights of the Palestinians to have a viable state, while the Israeli occupation state continues to annex vast areas of the Palestinian territory in an attempt to undermine the so-called two-state solution," said Tayseer Khaled, member of the PLO Executive Committee on Saturday.
Palestinian prisoners have been trying to resist the crackdown through all possible means including boycotting military courts and going on hunger strikes ... Palestinian inmates have been subjected to systematic torture all through the years of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.