copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-08-10): Yet as the United States focuses elsewhere, the reality on the ground is changing. For Palestinians and Israelis alike, the Green Line—the 1949 armistice border that many view as the basis for a future two-state solution—has all but disappeared. For over a decade, under both former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the past year’s "government of change," Israel has supercharged its de facto annexation of the West Bank, further entrenching a one-state reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This has recently prompted leading Israeli and international human rights organizations, from B’Tselem to Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International, to accept what Palestinians have long said: that the Israeli regime is one of apartheid in every corner of the land under its control: from the river to the sea, including the Gaza Strip, which Israel still controls through its siege policies and its grip on the Gazan civilian register, water and electricity infustrcutrue, currency and more. It is this regime and the war crimes it carries out that uninterested American citizens are continuing to fund, all while their government sanctions Russia for similar crimes in Ukraine.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-07-07): Ma’ale Adumim is an example of the second category, although it is more problematic than some of the other settlements that share this distinction. It anchors one of the five settlement blocs, is the third largest settlement in the West Bank and one of only four Jewish cities across the Green Line, and it is inside the planned route for the security barrier. The vast majority of Israelis consider it to be completely non-controversial and part of Israel, and it has been included in the territory that Israel would like to annex during each negotiation with the Palestinians, including in the 2003 Geneva Initiative. If one takes the position, as I do, that settlement construction inside the blocs should be treated differently than construction outside the blocs, then more housing in Ma’ale Adumim should essentially be ignored. What makes Ma’ale Adumim a little different is that because it is significantly east of Jerusalem, its continued growth poses problems for Palestinian contiguity in the West Bank and – depending on which way it expands – Palestinian access to Jerusalem.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-05-12): But despite this reality, which shapes the lives of Israelis and Palestinians every day, some have preferred to hold onto the Green Line. That 1949 line, famously sketched in green ink during armistice talks, exists only on maps—fewer and fewer maps by the day. In fact, as Gershom Gorenberg has written, the green line began to disappear from official Israeli maps after an original directive written by Yigal Allon on Oct. 30, 1967, just months after it occupied the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. [...] To his credit, Beinart himself has come around in recent years, arguing in 2020 that a one-state reality exists and equal rights for all within that state is the way forward. In the first argument, the words "Green Line"’ appeared nine times; in the second, none. Beinart is of course not the only commentator to abandon green-lined vision. A growing consensus among Middle East experts is emerging. A recent poll of scholars and analysts of the Middle East focused on current policy issues in the region found that 59 percent of respondents describe the "current reality in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza" as "a one-state reality akin to apartheid."
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-10-06): I have been especially sensitive to movement across the Green Line that divides the West Bank and Israel as a ’48 Palestinian (albeit one born and living in the United States) with strong connections on either side of the Green Line. In many hours logged on the road, I’ve learned that driving is a site of embodied, everyday politics — a kind that is too often overlooked in favor of official or formal political statements and stances. The very nomenclature of ’48 Palestinians and ’67 Palestinians shows how the Nakba is at the root of Palestinian fragmentation, and the road network is a prime instrument of their separation from each other. [...] For both Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians of the West Bank, journeys lead to political analysis, explicitly stated or implicitly packed into jokes or offhand comments. In crossing the Green Line without being stopped, both groups gained the sense that Israel’s security strategies are more effective at perpetuating a logic of separation and racist demonization of Palestinians than at actually preventing Palestinians from the West Bank from entering Israel. Our Palestinian connections to place are forged through anxious, angry, and urgent forms of political knowledge, because the places themselves are created by way of colonialism.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-07-21): The Green Line refers to the line of demarcation that separated Israeli, Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian forces at the conclusion of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. It was delineated in the 1949 armistice agreements that formally ended the war and served as Israel’s de facto international border until the 1967 Six-Day War. Its name derives from the fact that the diplomats drawing up the agreement reportedly used green ink to mark the line on the map. During the 1967 war, Israel vastly increased the territory under its control, taking possession of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai peninsula. The Green Line thus came to mark the border between Israel and the territories it captured in the war. As a result, the Green Line is sometimes referred to as the "pre-1967 border," though it was never intended to mark a recognized international boundary between Israel and its neighbors. As the border between Israel and the West Bank remains the only boundary whose precise route remains in substantial dispute, the Green Line is most commonly used today to refer to the dividing line between those territories.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Fact Sheets: The "Pre-1967 Border" - The "Green Line" The area originally separating Israel from Jordan is typically described as the "1967 or pre-1967 border." The frontier was never recognized as the border of Israel, however, and is actually the armistice line agreed to by Jordan and Israel in 1949. It is often referred to as the "Green Line" because that is the color of the pen used to draw the ceasefire line between Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan following the 1967 War. Today, it is used to demarcate Israel from the disputed territories of East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). [...] Green Line Ynhockey at the English-language Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Wikimedia.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-06-26): The fighting continued until January 1949 when an armistice agreement between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria was forged. The 1949 Armistice Line is also known as the Green Line and is the generally recognised boundary between Israel and the West Bank. The Green Line is also referred to as the (pre-) 1967 borders, before Israel occupied the remaining Palestinian territories during the June 1967 war. [...] Israel has a surface area of 20,770 km2 based on the internationally recognised Green Line boundaries. [...] Israel says that the wall is for security purposes. However, rather than following the internationally-recognised 1967 boundary, known as the Green Line, 85 percent of the wall falls within the West Bank.
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-01-01): An armistice line that in 1949 formed the de facto border between Israel and what was left of historic Palestine The Green Line is a term that emerged in the wake of Israel’s establishment in 1948, whose proper name is the 1949 Armistice Line. It refers to the border separating pre-1967 Israel from the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and constitutes an internationally recognised border. However, it is important to note that Israel has never specified the boundaries of its own state. MORE ABOUT "GREEN LINE"
Claim: Green Line is a territory of Israel (Green Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-09-09): Why Israel Secretly Decided to Erase the Green Line Minutes of top-secret cabinet meetings in 1967 reveal how the decision to erase the Green Line from Israel’s official map was made. And it wasn't the only thing that was erased A media storm sprang up last month over the decision by the Tel Aviv Municipality to hang in the city’s classrooms maps of Israel showing the Green Line – the armistice line that Israel and its neighbors agreed upon in 1949, following Israel’s War of Independence. Until 1967, that line signified Israel’s de facto eastern border and demarcated its sovereign territory. The line has not appeared on the State of Israel’s official maps throughout all the years of the occupation, and deliberately so, in the wake of secret decisions made by the security cabinet at the end of 1967. Instead of the Green Line, it was decided to denote Israel’s (unofficial) borders via the cease-fire lines of the Six-Day War fought in June of that year, encompassing the territories of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-08-31): The occupied West Bank is part of historical Palestine on the west bank of the Jordan River, it measures 5,650sq km (2,180sq miles) of landlocked territory surrounded by Israel, Jordan, and the Dead Sea. [...] The West Bank has some 871,000 registered refugees, a quarter of whom live in 19 refugee camps, descendants of the Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homes and lands to make way for the creation of Israel in the Nakba of 1948. [...] The occupied West Bank and Gaza are both parts of Palestine but are separated from each other by the state of Israel.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-08): The West Bank is a mountainous region. It is divided in three regions, namely the Mount Nablus (Jabal Nablus), the Hebron Hills and Jerusalem Mountains (Jibal al–Quds).[85] The Samarian Hills and Judean Hills are mountain ranges in the West Bank, with Mount Nabi Yunis at a height of 1,030 metres (3,380 ft) in Hebron Governorate as their highest peak.[86][87] Until 19th century, Hebron was highest city in the Middle East.[87] While Jerusalem is located on a plateau in the central highlands and is surrounded by valleys.[87] The territory consists of fertile valleys, such as the Jezreel Valley and the Jordan River Valley. Palestine is home to world's largest olive tree, located in Jerusalem.[88][87] Around 45% of Palestine's land is dedicated to growing olive trees.[89]
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-11): The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain to administer by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations). [...] Similarly, Israel has had a de facto border with Gaza since it pulled its troops and settlers out in 2005, but Gaza and the West Bank are considered a single occupied entity by the UN, and the official borders have not yet been determined. The final status and contours of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are meant to be decided in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians living there under Israeli occupation, but decades of on-off talks have so far proved fruitless.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-16): The West Bank, called al-Daffah in Arabic, is located on the western side of the Jordan River, from which it derives its name. [...] The West Bank, with approximately 3.3 million Palestinian inhabitants, has roughly one million more residents than Gaza. The West Bank is divided into 11 governorates. Hebron, or al-Khalil in Arabic, is the most populous governorate with about 842,000 residents. It is followed by Jerusalem (500,000), Nablus (440,000), Ramallah and el-Bireh (337,000) and Jenin (360,000).
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-12-19): Covering an area of 6,020 sq. km, the State of Palestine is a de jure sovereign state, rather than an official nation in the classical sense. Currently the "State of Palestine" is officially recognized by the United Nations as a Non-Member Observer State, a status granted on November 29. 2012. Located in Western Asia, the Palestinian territories are made up of the areas known as Gaza and the West Bank. Both of which are ruled over and controlled by different governments. Both the Palestinian territories share a similar climate however, this is where the similarities end. Gaza is almost entirely urban whereas the West Bank is considerably more rural and is made up of smaller farming villages and towns. [...] Covering an area of 6,020 sq. km, the State of Palestine is a de jure sovereign state, located in Western Asia and comprising of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Located to the north of Jerusalem, in the central part of the West Bank is the city of Ramallah – the current administrative center of Palestine. [...] The State of Palestine is a de jure sovereign state, located in Western Asia and comprising of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It is geographically positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. The Gaza Strip is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west; by Egypt on the southwest and by Israel on the east and north. The West Bank is bordered by Israel in the north, south, and west; and by Jordan and the Dead Sea in the east.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-25): In addition, about 1,500 Palestinians with West Bank IDs who live in 18 communities on the East Jerusalem side of the Barrier continue to face impediments in travelling between their homes and service centres; they are forbidden from reaching East Jerusalem and are forced to coordinate their access with Israeli forces to cross checkpoints to access basic health and education services as well as markets on the West Bank side of the Barrier. [...] Under international law, the Israeli authorities have the obligation to facilitate the free movement of Palestinians within the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Exceptions to this obligation are recognized only for imperative reasons of security and only in response to specific security threats. The sections of the Barrier running inside the West Bank, together with the associated gate and permit regime, are unlawful under international law (see the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 9 July 2004).
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-09-11): The occupied West Bank was divided into three areas – A, B and C – as part of the Oslo Accords, signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel in 1993 and 1995. [...] About 2.8 million Palestinians live crowded into Areas A and B whose major Palestinian cities and towns are Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus. Area C is the largest section of the West Bank, comprising about 60 percent of the Palestinian territory.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-02): The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized: aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized: HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) claimed by the State of Palestine. 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.[7] Since 1967, the territory has been occupied by Israel and in 2024 an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice determined that the occupation is illegal under international law.[8] [...] The name West Bank is a translation of the Arabic term aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah, which designates the territory situated on the western side of the Jordan River that was occupied in 1948 and annexed in 1950 by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This annexation was widely considered to be illegal, and was recognized only by Iraq, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.[16]
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-07): The International Court of Justice (ICJ) employed the term Occupied Palestinian Territory in its advisory opinion of July 2004, titled "Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory".[7][8] In its July 2024 advisory opinion, titled "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem", the ICJ wrote "Territorial scope — Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 encompassing the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — The 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' constituting, from legal standpoint, a single territorial unit."[9] The term Occupied Palestinian Territory was used by the United Nations and other international organizations between October 1999[10] and December 2012 to refer to areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority. Since 2012, when Palestine was admitted as one of its non-member observer state, the United Nations has been using the name State of Palestine to describe the political entity[11][12][13][14] but continues to use Occupied Palestinian Territory to describe the physical territory.[15][16][17] The European Union (EU) also uses the term Occupied Palestinian Territory.[18][19] The government of Israel and its supporters refer to these areas as "disputed territories".[20]
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-05-28): A complex mix of authorities governs the 5.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank territories. Palestinians, like Jews, trace their ancestry to the geographic area that now forms the state of Israel and the two Palestinian territories. Yet, the Palestinians do not have a universally recognized state, with their aspirations to create one depending not just on Palestinian leadership, but also on Israel and recognition by foreign powers. Officially, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) represents Palestinians worldwide at international fora, while the Palestinian Authority (PA), a newer institution led by a PLO faction known as Fatah, is supposed to govern most of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In reality, the PA has overshadowed the PLO, and both are deeply troubled; Israel has exercised significant control over the Palestinian territories, de facto and official; and Gaza has been ruled by the militant Palestinian group Hamas, which Israel and multiple other countries have designated as a terrorist organization. Palestinian leaders will have to grapple with these and other challenges—including succession concerns and yet another war between Israel and Hamas—to deliver their peoples’ dream of an independent Palestinian state. [...] - Area A, which consists of most of Gaza and about 17 percent of the West Bank, is the most densely populated and urbanized. It is designated as fully Palestinian controlled under Oslo, including for civil affairs and internal security issues. However, Israel has waged an extensive military campaign in Gaza since October 2023 with the goal of eliminating Hamas, and it has therefore imposed more-stringent movement controls in the territory.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-09-06): As its name implies, the West Bank is a territory situated on the western bank of the Jordan River. Many countries recognize it as being part of the so-called State of Palestine, but Palestine’s borders are yet to be determined, pending a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For both Israelis and Palestinians, the West Bank forms the heart of the Biblical Holy Land. It contains several important religious sites that are holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The West Bank is also home to most of the Palestinian population, and the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The West Bank has a total land area of 6,220 sq. km. This includes part of the holy city of Jerusalem, known as East Jerusalem. It is bordered by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the east, and by Israel in all other directions. The name "West Bank" was a term first used by the Jordanians when they annexed the territory in 1949, following the first Arab-Israeli war. Many Israelis refer to it as Judea (Hebrew: Yehuda) and Samaria (Hebrew; Shomron), denoting the fact that it was the territory in which the Biblical kingdoms of Judah and Israel (also called Shomron) were situated. Much of the West Bank’s territory consists of north-south oriented limestone hills. These hills are divided between the Samarian Hills north of Jerusalem, and the Judean Hills in the south. The hills slope down into the Jordan Valley and the area adjacent to the Dead Sea, which is the lowest place on Earth.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-06-25): Between 2.1 million and 3 million (sources vary) Palestinian Arabs live in the West Bank under both limited self-rule and Israeli military rule. [...] The move could result in some 4.5% of Palestinians in the West Bank living in enclaves within annexed territory. Mr Netanyahu has said Israeli sovereignty will not be applied to Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, and reports say the same exclusion will extend to Palestinians in other annexed parts of the West Bank. [...] However, the Palestinians seek the whole of the West Bank - to which they claim an historical right - for a future independent state, along with the Gaza Strip. Any annexation by Israel, they argue, would leave Palestinian areas fragmented and the Palestinian people with considerably less land for a country of their own.
Claim: West Bank is a territory of Palestine (West Bank, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): West Bank, Territory west of the Jordan River and east of Jerusalem. Area: 2,185 sq mi (5,660 sq km). Population: (2024 est.) 4,026,000. It is known within Israel by its biblical names, Judaea and Samaria. It is a region with deep history, forming the heart of historic Palestine. Populated areas include Nāblus, Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jericho. Under a 1947 UN agreement, most of what is now the West Bank was to become part of a Palestinian state. When the State of Israel was formed, the Arabs attacked Israel (see Arab-Israeli wars), and the partition plan was never adopted. Following a truce, Jordan remained in control of the area and annexed it in 1950. Israel subsequently occupied it during the Six-Day War of 1967. During the 1970s and ’80s Israel established settlements there, provoking resentment among the Arab population and protest from the international community. Arab uprisings began in 1987 in the Gaza Strip and spread to the West Bank (see intifāḍah). Jordan relinquished its claims in 1988, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) assumed power.