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Palestinian areas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Area A and B under the Oslo II Accord Proposal in the Trump peace plan (including a tunnel to Gaza and parts of the Negev Desert ) The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . The enclaves are often compared to the nominally self-governing black homelands created in apartheid -era South Africa , and are thus referred to as bantustans . They have been referred to figuratively as the Palestinian archipelago , among other terms. The de facto status in 2026 is that Israel controls all area outside these enclaves . The "islands" first took official form as Areas A and B under the 1995 Oslo II Accord . This arrangement was explicitly intended to be temporary, with Area C (the rest of the West Bank ) to "be gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction" by 1997; however, no such transfer was made. The area of the West Bank currently under partial civil control of the Palestinian National Authority is composed of 165 "islands". The creation of this arrangement has been described by Israeli journalist Amira Hass as "the most outstanding geopolitical occurrence of the past quarter century". A number of Israeli-U.S. peace plans, including the Allon Plan , the Drobles World Zionist Organization plan, Menachem Begin 's plan, Benjamin Netanyahu 's "Allon Plus" plan, the 2000 Camp David Summit , and Sharon's vision of a Palestinian state have proposed an enclave-type territory – i.e. a group of non-contiguous areas surrounded, divided, and, ultimately, controlled by Israel; as has the more recent Trump peace plan . This has been referred to as the " Bantustan option". The consequences of the creation of these fragmented Palestinian areas has been studied widely, and has been shown to have had a "devastating impact on the economy, social networks, [and] the provision of basic services such as healthcare and education". There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Fragmentation of the West Bank over time Area A and B under the Oslo II Accord Proposal in the Trump peace plan (including a tunnel to Gaza and parts of the Negev Desert ) The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict . The enclaves are often compared to the nominally self-governing black homelands created in apartheid -era South Africa , and are thus referred to as bantustans . They have been referred to figuratively as the Palestinian archipelago , among other terms. The "islands" first took official form as Areas A and B under the 1995 Oslo II Accord . This arrangement was explicitly intended to be temporary, with Area C (the rest of the West Bank ) to "be gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction" by 1997; however, no such transfer was made. The area of the West Bank currently under partial civil control of the Palestinian National Authority is composed of 165 "islands". The creation of this arrangement has been described by Israeli journalist Amira Hass as "the most outstanding geopolitical occurrence of the past quarter century". A number of Israeli-U.S. peace plans, including the Allon Plan , the Drobles World Zionist Organization plan, Menachem Begin 's plan, Benjamin Netanyahu 's "Allon Plus" plan, the 2000 Camp David Summit , and Sharon's vision of a Palestinian state have proposed an enclave-type territory – i.e. a group of non-contiguous areas surrounded, divided, and, ultimately, controlled by Israel; as has the more recent Trump peace plan . This has been referred to as the "Bantustan option". The consequences of the creation of these fragmented Palestinian areas has been studied widely, and has been shown to have had a "devastating impact on the economy, social networks, [and] the provision of basic services such as healthcare and education". There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “areas in the west bank designated for palestinians under a variety of u”. Today it says “areas in the west bank designated for palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful u”. Read the current article and compare.
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areas in the west bank designated for palestinians under a variety of u
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areas in the west bank designated for palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful u
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