Palestinian territories

"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.

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Palestinians protest at UN headquarters to reduce food aid rations from each month in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on March 02, 2012.Photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN
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Fund crunch may spark crisis in Gaza

China Daily 07 Jun 2023
Continued Israeli aggression toward occupied Palestinian territories has prevented Palestinians from "investing in their lands" and contributing to economic development, they said ... said food security in the Palestinian territories, especially in Gaza, "is really in bad shape"....
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Gazan children call on WFP not to suspend aid to needy Palestinian families

People Daily 07 Jun 2023
"It is unfair to suspend the food and financial aids on the Palestinian families, who are suffering from poverty," Mena Mahmoud, an eleven-year-old girl, told Xinhua ... In May, the WFP announced that it is going to suspend its financial aid to more than 200,000 needy families in the Palestinian territories because of an acute funding deficit....
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Killeen Daily Herald 07 Jun 2023
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S ... in striking its own decisions ...Khashoggi still haunts the halls of Congress ... He added ... Saudi Arabia under King Salman has repeatedly called on Israel to allow the Palestinians to create a state in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories seized by Israel in the 1967 war ... All rights reserved....
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi crown prince

Market Watch 07 Jun 2023
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S ... in striking its own decisions ... From the archives (July 2022) ... He’ll pay it a visit this week ... Don’t miss ... Saudi Arabia under King Salman has repeatedly called on Israel to allow the Palestinians to create a state in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories seized by Israel in the 1967 war ... ....
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56 Years of Occupation: Explaining the Palestinian ‘Naksa’

Scheerpost 06 Jun 2023
But following the six-day war, Israel took over control of the remaining 22% of Palestinian territory, enforcing a military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem, in a move that was never recognized by the international community....
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UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (European Parliament)

Public Technologies 06 Jun 2023
) UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories ... In May 2023, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 described Israel as a 'colonial power maintaining the occupation in order to get as much land as possible'....
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No sanctions on Israel for its occupation and annexation of Golan

Arab News 06 Jun 2023
While Japan and G7 partners apply severe sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine and changing the status quo by military force, they have expressed no interest in equally applying sanctions on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights....
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Egypt holds meetings with Hamas and PIJ for ceasefire

The New Arab 06 Jun 2023
On Monday, a delegation of Hamas headed by Ismail Haniya and a delegation of PIJ headed by Ziad al-Nakhala arrived in Egypt to participate in meetings with officials in Egypt on various political and humanitarian issues in the Palestinian territories ... Palestinian people," he said....
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The rise of the anti-Zionist Jews

Cleveland Jewish News 06 Jun 2023
J Street claims Israel’s “occupation” of these territories is “de jure unilateral Israeli annexation” designed “to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state” and “an obstacle to peace.” In fact, J Street asserts, the “occupation” makes “peaceful resolution” impossible ... Prior to 1967, these territories were under Jordanian rule....
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Roundup: Gazan children call on WFP not to suspend aid to needy Palestinian families

Xinhua 06 Jun 2023
"It is unfair to suspend the food and financial aids on the Palestinian families, who are suffering from poverty," Mena Mahmoud, an eleven-year-old girl, told Xinhua ... In May, the WFP announced that it is going to suspend its financial aid to more than 200,000 needy families in the Palestinian territories because of an acute funding deficit....
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Iran’s multifront war against Israel is decades old

Cleveland Jewish News 06 Jun 2023
While these groups primarily operated out of Syrian-controlled Lebanon and the Palestinian territories in the 1990s, they used Syria in the north and Sudan in the south as their headquarters and strategic depth, overseen in all three countries by the IRGC ... It then traded these soldiers for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners....
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Huwara, a village on the edge: Settler violence in the West Bank escalates

France24 06 Jun 2023
... to find out why the northern West Bank is now one of the most violent areas in the Palestinian Territories....
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Resettling Homesh threatens Israeli security, the Zionist vision - opinion

The Jerusalem Post 06 Jun 2023
Furthermore, the daily friction with surrounding Palestinians serves as an additional incentive for terrorist violence, both in the territories and within Israel proper ... The isolated, lawless settlements where brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians originate cast a shadow of viciousness over all West Bank settlers....

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