Palestinian territories

The term "Palestinian territories" is used by many mainstream Western journalists as a collective name for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ? two territories in Palestine. The Palestinian people seek to found an independent Palestinian state in these non-sovereign areas.

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West Bank - Gaza Strip - Palestine - Palestinian - Seek to found an independent Palestinian state

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After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region for four centuries (1517-1917), these areas have been a part of the British Mandate of Palestine and were allotted to the proposed Arab state under United Nations Partition Plan of 1947. For nineteen years that followed the end of the Mandate until the 1967 Six Day War, Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and Jordan occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and no Palestinian state was created. In 1950, Jordan annexed the Palestinian territory that it occupied, but the only other country that recognized this acquisition was Great Britain.

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Ottoman Empire - The region - 1517 - 1917 - British Mandate of Palestine - United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 - 1967 Six Day War - Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip - Jordan occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - Great Britain

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