14 Facts About Palestinian territories

Palestinian territories are the two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been militarily occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967, namely: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The term occupied Palestinian territories territory was used by the United Nations and other international organizations between October 1999 and December 2012 to refer to areas controlled by the Palestinian territories National Authority, but from 2012, when Palestine was admitted as one of its non-member observer states, the United Nations started using exclusively the name State of Palestine.

Palestinian territories consist of two distinct areas: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Some Palestinian territories negotiators have claimed a return to those lines as the borders of a future Palestinian territories state, while Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel at all.

Palestinian territories are part of the area intended by the United Nations to become the territory of the future State of Palestine.

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Political status of the Palestinian territories has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the PLO and of numerous statements and resolutions by the United Nations.

Unless a timetable was established, the Palestinian territories leadership said it would apply to the International Criminal Court where it would hold Israel responsible for its actions not only in the West Bank, but in the Gaza Strip.

International community regards the Palestinian territories, meaning the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, as territories occupied by Israel.

The Palestinian territories Authority welcomed this plan, but declared that until final status, it would still consider the Gaza Strip under Israeli occupation.

The participating High Contracting Parties called upon Israel "to fully and effectively respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian territories Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to refrain from perpetrating any violation of the Convention.

The Palestinian territories authorities have instructed its diplomats to officially represent 'The State of Palestine', as opposed to the 'Palestine National Authority'.

Israel asserts that these Palestinian territories are not currently claimed by any other state and that Israel has the right to control them.

The Palestinian Territories have therefore de facto split into two entities.

The Palestinian territories Authority carried civil responsibility in some rural areas, as well as security responsibility in the major cities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.