Palestinian Territory

                             The Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions:

    * The West Bank (5,640 km2 of land and 220 km2 water, the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea)
    * The Gaza Strip (360 km2 )

The territories, which were originally contained within the British Mandate of Palestine, were captured and occupied by Jordan and by Egypt in the late 1940s, and captured and occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. "Palestinian territories" is one of a number of designations for these areas. In 1980 Israel annexed East Jerusalem from the West Bank, but United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 declared this null and void and required that it be rescinded forthwith, claiming that it was a violation of international law.

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