The
Israeli-occupied territories is a political concept, referring to the territories
occupied by
Israel during the
Six-Day War of 1967. Originally, those territories included the Syrian Golan Heights, the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and Jordanian-occupied West Bank and were also referred to as
Occupied Arab territories, ruled via the
Israeli Military Governorate system from 1967 to 1982. Today
Israeli-occupied territories generally refer to the
West Bank, including
East Jerusalem, and the
Gaza Strip; much of the
Golan Heights from
Syria. Israel maintains that the West Bank is
disputed territory and asserts that since the
disengagement from Gaza in 2005, it no longer occupies it. The
Palestinian Authority, the
EU, the
International Court of Justice, the
UN General Assembly and the
UN Security Council consider East Jerusalem to be part of the West Bank and occupied by Israel; Israel considers all of Jerusalem to be its capital and sovereign territory.