"Situated between Israel and Jordan on the western bank of the Jordan River, the West Bank is central to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envisions an independent Palestine encompassing the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital. 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 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)."
The West Bank lies between Israel and Jordan on the western bank of the Jordan River and is central to a two-state solution envisioning an independent Palestine comprising the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israeli settlement expansion, considered illegal by the International Court of Justice, the Geneva Conventions and most UN member states, has accelerated and coincided with rising violence that has killed about 1,000 Palestinians in under two years. The 1947 UN Partition Plan proposed separate Jewish and Arab states; subsequent 1948 war, Jordanian annexation, the Nakba and the 1967 Israeli occupation have shaped current territorial and refugee realities.
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