Figure 6.: Israel and the Palestinian Territory after 1949. When the state of Israel was created in 1949, its Arab neighbors were opposed to a Jewish state. (D) In 1967, Israel soundly defeated combined Arab forces and took control over Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. (E) In subsequent peace accords, Sinai was returned to Egypt, but Israel maintained control over the Golan Heights and the West Bank, claiming that they were essential to Israeli security. (F) Although the Palestinians were granted some autonomy in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, during the 1990s the Israelis, contrary to verbal agreements in the Oslo Accords, continued to build Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights. By 2012, there were hundreds of extra-legal Israeli settlements in these areas. This map shows only West Bank settlements.
[Sources consulted: “Map: Golan Heights,” at http://www.fmep.org/reports/archive/vol.-22/no.-6/map-golan-heights; Geoffrey Aronson, “The Occupation Returns to Center Stage,” Foundation for Middle East Peace Settlement Report 22 (6), at http://www.fmep.org/reports/archive/vol.-22/no.-6/the-occupation-returns-to-center-stage; http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/14/483860/eu-settlements-threaten-two-states/?mobile=nc; http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/APN-Settlement-Map1.png]