Original sentence: East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem ( al-Quds al-Sharqit‎; ) is the sector of Jerusalem that was occupied by Jordan in 1948 and was excluded from the Israeli-held West Jerusalem at the end of the 1948–49 Arab–Israeli War
Edited sentence: East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem ( al-Quds al-Sharqit‎; ) is the sector of Jerusalem that was left under  Jordanian occupancy in 1948 as opposed to the western sector of the city, West Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel at the end of the 1948–49 Arab–Israeli War