By Evan Zlatkis. The population of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is growing at a faster rate than the population of Israel. This 1935 animated map produced by March of Time shows where many of Germany’s Jews fled to following the rise of Hitler’s Nazi party / Getty Images. Three million Palestinians live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Blockade of the Gaza Strip Over the past century it has been carved up, walled-in and filled with hundreds of illegal Israeli settlements and military checkpoints. If Israel annexes the Jordan Valley the entire West Bank would be completely surrounded by Israel. Today it is home to two million, 64 percent of whom are refugees. A further 5.6 million Palestinians live in Arab countries with the remaining 700,000 living in other countries around the world. Arab forces ... held onto the remains ... and the land on which they had stood was incorporated into the West Bank and Gaza after the war. La discontinuité territoriale caractérise l’Etat palestinien en gestation, divisé en trois zones et rogné par une colonisation israélienne grandissante. The compound is known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount. Annexation and territorial conquest are illegal under international law. The Colony Hotel from Mapcarta, the open map. Artists Colony Inn Safed is situated southwest of Birya. He hailed it as “the deal of the century”. It should clear up any notion that this is a 'both sides are bad' conflict. Hiking trails. Since its early days of colonising Palestine, the Zionist movement has always aimed to establish a Greater Israel. According to the international standards, Jerusalem is a divided city. These checkpoints further limit Palestinian movement. If you don't believe Israel is colonizing Palestine, just look at this map. Israeli settlements under construction in Jerusalem, December 29, 2016. Category » General Maps of Israel: Country-Wide Political Map. Just click on the location you desire for a postal code/address for your mails destination. As of 2020, there were 463,535 recorded settlers living in the West Bank and 220,200 in East Jerusalem. Annexation would mean that Palestinians would be physically cut off from the Jordan River. As many pictures and media files as possible should be moved into appropriate subcategories. View all the items on the interactive map . Interactive map of zip codes in Israel. Palestinians, carrying possessions on their heads, flee from an village in Galilee (1948) / Getty Images. On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce Israel’s annexation of the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea. Israel says that the wall is for security purposes. View of Israel From Space. The West Bank is the kidney bean-shaped area to the east. "Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory", para 120, 134, and 142, Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention: Declaration, GENEVA, 5 December 2001, See UN General Assembly resolution 39/146, 14 December 1984; UN Security Council Resolution 446, 22 March 1979; and International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, 9 July 2004, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, para 120. The UN, the ICJ, almost every state in the world, and the vast majority of legal experts all consider Israeli settlemnents to be illegal and, in fact, a war crime according to the Fourth Geneva Convention (specifically article 49, paragraph 6). In both areas, while the PA is in charge of education, health and the economy, the Israelis have full control of external security, meaning they retain the right to enter at any time. Of those, 162 (84 percent) recognise Israel and 138 (72 percent) recognise the State of Palestine. ‘The charge that israeli settlements violate international law is widely accepted in the international community. 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Zionism’s The Jewish population in Palestine increased from 6 percent (1918) to 33 percent (1947). For Palestinians there cannot be a Palestinian state without the Jordan Valley. This is not internationally recognised. The 1949 Armistice Line is also known as the Green Line and is the generally recognised boundary between Israel and the West Bank. In 1967, Israel captured 70 percent of the Syrian Golan Heights and has occupied it ever since. Arabs move in to Jewish settlements, "Israel okays 2,610 homes for Jews and Arabs in E. 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The Jordan Valley makes up 30 percent of the West Bank and constitutes half of its agricultural land. Al-Aqsa mosque is the entire compound containing al-Qibli Mosque (grey dome) and the Dome of the Rock (golden dome). The United Nations has 193 member states. On the ground, the occupied West Bank was divided into three areas – A, B and C. Area A initially comprised three percent of the West Bank and grew to 18 percent by 1999. Of these, 6.7 million live in Israel, 5.7 million in the US, 450,000 in France, 329,000 in Canada, 292,000 in the UK, 180,000 in Argentina and 165,000 in Russia. This led to the formation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) – an administrative body that would govern Palestinian internal security, administration and civilian affairs in areas of self-rule, for a five-year interim period. Cuts off water and agricultural resources. 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Each administrative division maintains its own postal code for mail delivery purposes. That is about the size of the US state of Hawaii (28,313 km2), the Caribbean nation of Haiti (27,750 km2) or Albania in Europe (28,748 km2). East Jerusalem is located on the Palestinian side of the 1949 Green Line. The Israeli government and a small number of legal experts dispute this, arguing that the Geneva Convention is not applicable to the West Bank because Israel is not an occupying power there (since the territory had no legitimate sovereign and that, even if the Geneva Convention does apply, it only prohibits forcible population transfers (like the mass deportations..)’. For this reason, Israeli maps do not show East Jerusalem being a part of the occupied West Bank. 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