A Palestinian territory located to the west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, constituting approximately 21% of historic Palestine. Israel often refers to it by its biblical name “Judea and Samaria.” The territory was under Jordanian control from 1948-1967, followed by Israeli administrative and military occupation from 1967-1994. In 1994, an agreement pursuant to the Declaration of Principles gave the Palestinian Authority limited self-government for an interim five-year period, although Israel retained responsibility for security in different areas as well as for administration of the Jewish Israeli settlements in the territory. Est. Palestinian population in 2007 according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics: 2.3 million. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, over 300,000 Jewish Israeli settlers resided in the West Bank in 2009; this number does not include settlements with populations under 2,000. Israel still maintains control of various areas of the West Bank, as laid out in the Oslo Process (see Areas A, B, C). In addition, Israel continues to build the Separation Barrier along the border of and jutting into the West Bank, operates military checkpoints within and along the borders of the territory, and conducts occasional military operations. See “West Bank.” 14 June 2011. CIA World Factbook. 21 July 2011. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/we.html; and Lazaroff, Tovah. “Settler population rose 4.9% in 2009.” Jerusalem Post. 10 March 2010. http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=170595.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/west-bank