Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories is one of a number of designations for those portions of the British Mandate of Palestine captured and militarily occupied by Egypt and Jordan, and later, in the Six-Day War, by Israel.

The designation typically refers to the territories governed in varying degrees by the Palestinian Authority (42% of the Israeli defined West Bank plus all of the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip) or erroneously includes all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It does not include Transjordan, modern-day Jordan which was established in 1946. It does not include the Golan Heights captured from Syria in the Six Day War or the Sinai Peninsula captured then, but later returned to Egypt after making peace with Israel. Note: Israel does not consider East Jerusalem (annexed in 1980) nor the former Israeli - Jordanian no man's land (annexed in 1967) to be parts of the West Bank. Both in fact fall under full Israeli law and jurasdiction as oppossed to the 58% of the Israeli defined West Bank which is ruled by the Israeli 'Judea & Samaria Civil Administration'.