"But the growing expansion of Israeli settlementswhich are considered illegal by the International Court of Justice, the Geneva Conventions and the overwhelming majority of UN member statesand the rising violence that has left about 1,000 Palestinians dead at the hands of Israeli forces and settlers in just under two years have cast doubt on that outcome."
"The 1947 UN Partition Plan had recommended creating separate Jewish and Arab states. But after Israel declared independence in May 1948, Arab states invaded, triggering the first Arab-Israeli war. At the end of the war in 1949, Israel held much of the land originally allocated for a Palestinian state. Jordan's forces controlled the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and formally annexed it in 1950a move rejected internationally."
"Many of the more than 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes during the period around the establishing of the state of Israelreferred to as the Nakba, which means "catastrophe" in Arabicwere displaced to the Jordan's, a territory of 5,655 square kilometers (2,180 square miles) where refugee camps are still administered by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)."
Situated between Israel and Jordan on the western bank of the Jordan River, the West Bank is central to a two-state solution envisioning an independent Palestine encompassing the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israeli settlements have expanded since the late 1960s, proliferated in the 1980s and accelerated recently. Settlements are considered illegal by the International Court of Justice, the Geneva Conventions and the overwhelming majority of UN member states. Rising violence has left about 1,000 Palestinians dead in just under two years at the hands of Israeli forces and settlers. Israel captured the West Bank in 1967 and has occupied it since. Jordan controlled and annexed the West Bank in 1950, and more than 750,000 Palestinians were displaced to Jordan's territory where UNRWA still administers refugee camps.
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