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Political Geography of the West Bank

The second major misconception that I held about the West Bank before arriving is that the Territory is controlled by the Palestinian National Authority. In actuality, most of it is under the complete military and civil jurisdiction of Israel. In order to understand the prospects of agriculture of the West Bank, its political geography must be appreciated.

The West Bank is divided into three areas: A, B, and C.
Area C, which constitutes 64% of the area, is under the military and civil jurisdiction of Israel. Area A is under the military and civil jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority and contains most of the major urban areas in the Territory. Area B is the designation for most Palestinian villages and surrounding rural land; civil jurisdiction is under the Palestinian Authority and military jurisdiction is shared with Israel. (Source: UN OCHA)

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regularly releases reports and maps on the political geography of the West Bank:


Political map of the West Bank. Click for an enlarged version. (Source: UN OCHA)

Area C is in blue. It is the only contiguous Area of the West Bank, and, as such, necessarily contains land that is vital for linking Palestinian cities and for infrastructure development and water distribution. The dark blue regions on the map (70% of Area C) are closed completely to Palestinian construction. They include Israeli settlement areas and their surrounding rural zones, Israeli military zones, and Israeli designated nature reserves. The light blue regions are the remainder of Area C – still, only 1% of Area C is zoned by the Israeli Civil Authority for Palestinian development. (Source: UN OCHA)
The three West Bank Areas were demarcated in a 1995 Interim Agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The Agreement was meant to be a temporary step towards the final resolution of the Oslo Accords, and the partition was to last only until a final status agreement was reached by the year 2000. Planning and zoning responsibilities in Area C were to be transferred to the Palestinian Authority in 1998, but they remain with Israel until today. (Source: UN OCHA)

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