The Gaza Strip and The West Bank (Palestinian Territories)
▪️It had been occupied by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, since the 1948 war until 1967.
▪️Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War of 1967 and has since maintained control.
▪️In 1980, Israel officially absorbed East Jerusalem and has proclaimed the whole of Jerusalem to be its capital.
▪️The inclusion, though never formally amounting to legal annexation.
▪️In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria.
▪️The two-state solution
to the Israeli– Palestinian conflict envisages an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel, west of the Jordan River.
The Gaza Strip and The West Bank (Palestinian Territories)
Reviewed by The GS Hunt
on
May 23, 2021
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Reviewed by The GS Hunt
on
May 23, 2021
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