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  1. 4 days ago · 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.

  2. Jun 29, 2024 · Israel says it will legalize five West Bank settlements previously considered illegal, as the government accelerates what critics call a slow-motion annexation of land meant for a Palestinian state.

  3. 2 days ago · The principal Palestinian municipalities of the West Bank are Jenin, Nablus, and Ramallah north of Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Hebron (Al-Khalīl) south of Jerusalem. Jericho (Arīḥā) is the chief municipality of the Jordan River valley.

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    1 day ago · The West Bank ( Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized : aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized : HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit ), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip ).

  5. 18 hours ago · It is the result of an in-depth reorganization of the administration of the Palestinian territories by Benjamin Netanyahu's government, ... and another five in the hills south of Hebron, ...

  6. 1 day ago · The Israeli administration of Palestinian territories became in time "the longest – and, accordingly, the most entrenched and institutionalized – belligerent occupation in modern history", issuing from 1967 to 2014 over 1,680 military orders regarding the West Bank.

  7. Jun 11, 2024 · Hebron is divided into two zones: H1, where security is controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and H2, where security is controlled by the Israeli military. Tel Rumeida, located in H2, is...

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