Areas A, B, C
Administrative divisions of the Occupied Palestinian Territories as outlined in the 1995 Oslo II Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (see Oslo Process). Area A, according to the Accords, consists of land under full civilian and security control by the Palestinian Authority (PA). Area B is Israeli controlled but PA administered, while Area C is controlled entirely by the Israeli government, with authority over both civil administration and police. Areas B and C constitute the majority of the territory, comprised mostly of rural areas, while urban areas - where the majority of the Palestinian population resides - are mostly Area A. Israeli security forces control borders between Areas A, B and C. After Israel's withdrawal of Jewish Israeli settlements from Gaza in 2005 (see Gaza Disengagement), these areas no longer exist in Gaza. Also, despite the designation of distinct areas and Israel's Gaza Disengagement, the entire territory of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip is still considered occupied by Israel. See Fischbach, Michael R. “Oslo Agreements.” Philip Mattar, ed. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. New York: Facts on File, 2005 and Brown, Nathan J. Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003; and “the Oslo Interim Agreement.” MidEast Web. 5 November 2011. http://www.mideastweb.org/meosint.htm. For a map delineating Areas A, B, and C in the West Bank, see http://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/20110612_btselem_map_of_wb_eng.pdf. http://www.justvision.org/glossary/areas-a-b-c
