Editing Occupied Palestinian territories (section)

===Palestinian state===
{{Main|State of Palestine}}
{{See also|United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19}}

The Palestinian territories are part of the area intended by the United Nations to become the territory of the future [[State of Palestine]].<ref name='Res 58/292'/> Originally, a larger area was allotted to the planned Palestinian state in [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine|Resolution 181]] of 29 November 1947, but the Arabs rejected it and in the [[1947–1949 Palestine war|1948 Palestine war]], the Israeli army conquered major parts of it. While in the ''Partition Plan'' about 45% of historic Palestine was destined for the Arabic state, the Palestinian territories constitute only some 23%.<ref name=CIA>Based on figures of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110501100605/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/wfbExt/region_mde.html CIA World Factbook]. The Factbook estimates the land area of Israel (excluding the Golan Heights) 20,330 square kilometer, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem, but excluding Mt. Scopus) 5,640 and the Gaza Strip 360.</ref> The last figure is including all space occupied by [[Israeli settlement]]s, [[Israeli West Bank barrier|walls]], and [[Highway 60 (Israel–Palestine)#Access, bypass roads|roads]].

In the UN, nearly all countries voted in favour of [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 58/292|Resolution 58/292]] of 17 May 2004; namely, that the boundaries of a future Palestinian state should be based on the pre-1967 borders, which correspond with the Green Line. The Resolution affirmed, in connection with the Palestinian right to self-determination and to sovereignty, that the independent State of Palestine should be based on the pre-1967 borders.  but it was not admitted as a member state. In the same resolution, their sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory was recognized.<ref name='Res 58/292'>[https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/A2C2938216B39DE485256EA70070C849 ''Resolution 58/292. Status of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806133025/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/A2C2938216B39DE485256EA70070C849 |date=6 August 2012 }}; 17 May 2004 (doc.nr. A/RES/58/292)</ref> In [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 43/177|Resolution 43/177]] of 15 December 1988, the declaration of independence of the [[State of Palestine]] was acknowledged by the [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]],<ref>UNGA; [https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/146E6838D505833F852560D600471E25 ''Resolution 43/177. Question of Palestine''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101093630/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/146E6838D505833F852560D600471E25 |date=1 November 2011 }} (doc.nr. A/RES/43/177)</ref>

On 29 November 2012, the [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]] passed [[United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19]] changing Palestine's observer status at the UN from "entity" to "non-member state" by a vote of 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-statehood-idUSBRE8AR0EG20121129 |title=Palestinians win implicit U.N. recognition of sovereign state |date=29 November 2012 |work=Reuters|access-date=29 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.3news.co.nz/LIVE-STREAM-Palestine-asks-United-Nations-for-a-birth-certificate-ahead-of-vote/tabid/417/articleID/278702/Default.aspx |work=3 News NZ |title=UN makes Palestine nonmember state |date=30 November 2012 |access-date=29 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116091340/http://www.3news.co.nz/LIVE-STREAM-Palestine-asks-United-Nations-for-a-birth-certificate-ahead-of-vote/tabid/417/articleID/278702/Default.aspx |archive-date=16 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>