▪️It had been occupied by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, since the 1948 war until 1967.
▪️Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War of 1967 and has since maintained control.
▪️In 1980, Israel officially absorbed East Jerusalem and has proclaimed the whole of Jerusalem to be its capital.
▪️The inclusion, though never formally amounting to legal annexation.
▪️In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria.
▪️The two-state solution
to the Israeli– Palestinian conflict envisages an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel, west of the Jordan River.
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