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It is located mainly within the West Bank, partly along the 1949 Armistice line, or "Green Line" between the West Bank and Israel. The length of the barrier as approved by the Israeli government is 708 km (440 mi) long. [144] As of 2020, approximately 454 km (282 mi) have been constructed (64%).
The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip —two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) employed the term Occupied ...
Route of the Barrier. The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then ruled by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. [a] The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and ...
502,991 Israeli Jews (Jan. 2,023); [1] 180,000−300,000 Palestinians (Area C of the West Bank) [2] The Judea and Samaria Area ( Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized : Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; [a] Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized : Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division administered ...
The Israeli West Bank barrier, comprising the West Bank Wall and the West Bank fence, [1] [2] is a separation barrier built by Israel along the Green Line and inside parts of the West Bank. Israel describes the wall as a necessary security barrier against Palestinian political violence; whereas Palestinians describe it as an element of racial ...
Politics of Israel. The status of territories captured by Israel is the status of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula, all of which were captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War . The Sinai Peninsula was returned to full sovereignty of Egypt in 1982 as a result of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
The West Bank was annexed by Jordan in 1950, [16] with the border being the 1949 armistice line, though Jordan laid claim to all of Mandate Palestine. Jordan's annexation was only recognised by three countries. The West Bank remained part of Jordan until Israel captured it in 1967, during the Six-Day War, though Jordan continued to claim the ...
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. In 56 years, Israel has built well over 100 settlements scattered across the West Bank. ... This map shows ...