Sunday, March 1, 2015





The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian areas. The West Bank shares boundaries (marked off by the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949) to the west, north, and southern with the state of Israel, and to the east, across the Jordan River, with Jordan. The West Bank likewise has a substantial coastline along the western bank of the Dead Sea.

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has a land area of 5,640 km2 and 220 km2 water, the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea. It has an approximated population of 2,676,740 (July 2013). Greater than 80 %, about 2,100,000, are Palestinian Arabs, and around 500,000 are Jewish Israelis residing in the West Bank, consisting of regarding 192,000 in East Jerusalem, in Israeli negotiations. The global area takes into consideration Israeli negotiations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, prohibited under international legislation, though Israel disputes this. The International Court of Justice advisory judgment (2004) concluded that occasions that followed the 1967 profession of the West Bank by Israel, including the Jerusalem Law, Israel's peace treaty with Jordan and the Oslo Accords, did not transform the status of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) as occupied territory with Israel as the inhabiting power.

In 1947, it was subsequently marked as component of a proposed Arab state by the United Nations (UN) partition prepare for Palestine. The resolution recommended partition of the British Mandate into a Jewish State, an Arab State, and a worldwide administered enclave of Jerusalem, a much more extensive region of the modern West Bank was delegated to the Arab State. The resolution marked the territory described as "capital country of Samaria and Judea" (including exactly what is now called the "West Bank") as component of the recommended Arab state, however following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War this area was caught by Transjordan (renamed Jordan 2 years after freedom in 1946). "West Bank" or "Cisjordan" became the name for the area west of the Jordan River, as "East Bank" or "Transjordan" designated the area eastern of the river.

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