This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant region of West Asia , [ 6 ] it is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel via the Green Line to the south, west, and north.
The territory first emerged in the wake of the Arab—Israeli War as a region occupied and subsequently annexed by Jordan. Jordan ruled the territory until the Six-Day War , when it was occupied by Israel. Jordan continued to claim the territory as its own until The PNA exercises total or partial civil administration over Palestinian enclaves across the three areas. The West Bank remains central to the Israeli—Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinians consider it the heart of their envisioned state , along with the Gaza Strip. Right-wing and religious Israelis see it as their ancestral homeland , with numerous biblical sites. There is a push among some Israelis for partial or complete annexation of this land. Additionally, it is home to a rising number of Israeli settlers. The West Bank has a land area of about 5, square kilometres 2, square miles. It has an estimated population of 2,, Palestinians , and over , Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, of which approximately , live in East Jerusalem.
This annexation was widely considered to be illegal, and was recognized only by Iraq , Pakistan , and the United Kingdom. Variations on the neo- Latin name Cisiordania lit.
The analogous Transjordan lit. State of Israel —present. From to , the area now known as the West Bank was under Turkish rule , as part of Ottoman Syria. It and Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations were the basic documents upon which the British Mandate of Palestine was constructed. He declared it an independent Hashemite kingdom on 25 May Under the United Nations in , it was designated as part of a proposed Arab state by the Partition Plan for Palestine.
