Original sentence: Although the Israeli Government considers it a neighborhood of East Jerusalem since annexing East Jerusalem into Israel in 1980, this move was almost instantly rejected by the International Community, who considers it an Israeli settlement and Illegal under International Law.Around 40,000 Israelis reside in the settlement, making it one of the largest in  East Jerusalem.Gilo () is an Israeli Settlement and neighborhood of Jerusalem, located in the West Bank, south of East Jerusalem.It was established on land which has been de facto annexed by the State of Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War.Some of Gilo's land was owned by Jewish institutions prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, though more than 2,700 dunams of land used to build Gilo were confiscated by the Israeli government from the nearby Arab towns of Beit Jala, Beit Safafa and Sharafat.The biblical Judean town of Gilo (from which the current settlement takes its name) is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (Joshua 15:51) and the Book of Samuel (II Sam 15:12) as a town in the Judean hills
Edited sentence: Because it is located in land conquered from Jordan in the 1967 war it is often called a settlement in East Jerusalem.Gilo' () is a neighbourhood in southernwestern Jerusalem with a population of 40,000.It was built on land annexed by the Jerusalem municipality from the West Bank (East Jerusalem) after the Six-Day War, , and is thus described by some sources as an Israeli settlement, although some of the land was purchased by Jews, both before the establishment of the state and in the 1970s and 80s.Most of Gilo's land was owned by Jewish institutions prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, though more than 2,700 dunams of land used to build Gilo were confiscated by the Israeli government from the nearby Arab towns of Beit Jala, Beit Safafa and Sharafat, according to the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem.The biblical Judean town of Gilo (from which the current neighborhood takes its name) is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (Joshua 15:51) and the Book of Samuel (II Sam 15:12) as a town in the Judean hills