The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on 24 April 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on 31 July 1988. The period started during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when Tr
Armistice Demarcation Lines, 1949–1967 Israel, 15 May 1948 Allotted for Arab state and the Corpus Separatum of Jerusalem-Bethlehem, occupied by Egypt Feb 1949/Jordan Apr 1949 Allotted for Arab state and the Corpus Separatum of Jerusalem-Bethlehem, occupied by Israel Feb/Apr 1949
Arab Legionnaires attacking Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Old City of Jerusalem, 1948
King Abdullah at Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 29 May 1948
Arab Legion soldier standing in the ruins of the Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Jordan, during the Six-Day War. Th
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
…portion of Mandatory Palestine that became known as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The territory remained under Jordanian control until it was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War and eventually Jordan renounced its claim to the territory in 1988. During the December 1948 Jericho Conference…
On the left, the Shu'fat Palestinian refugee camp, bordered by the Israeli West Bank wall, facing the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev. East Jerusalem, 2023
Israeli settlement of Carmel, Har Hebron
Umm al-Khair Palestinian village near Carmel
Modi'in Illit, the biggest Israeli settlement of the occupied West Bank (Area C), in 2012