"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.
Security Council’s monthly meeting on the Mideast also implicitly criticized Saudi Arabia — without naming it — for moving toward establishing diplomatic relations with Israel while taking “aggressive illegal actions” including an “unprecedented” expansion of settlements on territory that is supposed to be part of an independent Palestinian state.
Most of the millions of Palestinians living in the occupied territories are stateless, as are millions of Palestinians living outside their homeland, who are denied their right of return ... to Palestinians living in the same territory, including those with American citizenship.
citizens, including those living in the Palestinian Territories or traveling to and from them.” ... Palestinian diplomats complained that the U.S. allowed Israel into the program without the country fulfilling its commitments of equal treatment for Palestinian Americans. Palestinian ...
citizens, including those living in the Palestinian Territories or traveling to and from them." ... Palestinian diplomats complained that the U.S. had allowed Israel into the program without the country fulfilling its commitments of equal treatment for Palestinian Americans.
citizens, including those living in the Palestinian Territories or traveling to and from them.”. Palestinian diplomats complained that the U.S. allowed Israel into the program without the country fulfilling its commitments of equal treatment for Palestinian Americans.
The top diplomat said that the current situation - where Israel continues to violently occupy the Palestinian territories and deny Palestinians their rights - is "moving towards a one-state reality without equal rights for all." ... However, Israel has refused to grant Palestinians ...
Through such measures, the Zionists in Israel have managed to bring down the Palestinian population from 98.3pc to just 26.5pc of the total population of the territories that used to constitute former Palestine, as reported by Jewish Virtual Library.
The decision, which Israel's Foreign Ministry had said was expected, is a boost for Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist government, whose relations with Washington have been strained over its judiciary overhaul plan and its policies towards the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
that Israel allow PalestinianAmericans to travel freely in its territory ... The decision comes after a two-month test period in which Israel was to prove its eligibility by eliminating long-standing restrictions on Palestinian Americans who attempt to travel in Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
However, scores of US and other foreign nationals of Palestinian and other Arab descent are routinely turned away by Israeli authorities, who control all access to the occupied Palestinian territories ... citizens, including those living in the Palestinian Territories or traveling to and from them,” said US Secretary of StateAntonyBlinken.
Both Germany and the US, strong allies of Israel, expressed reservations towards Netanyahu's map that omitted the PalestinianTerritory and appeared to be another rejection of the two-state solution ... On Tuesday, the Saudi ambassador to the Palestinian Authority arrived in Ramallah for talks with Palestinian officials.