West Bank

"On the other side of Palestine comes with the West Bank, the opposite side of the Gaza Strip, also owned by the Palestinian National Authority. Since it's being under attack by Israel, I think this conflict could get much worser and worser than I thought."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Spilling the American Blood

The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية‎ Aḍ-Ḍiffah l-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הגדה המערבית‎, Hagadah Hama'aravit) is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, the bulk of it now under Israeli control, or else under joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority control. The final status of the entire area is yet to be determined by the parties concerned. The West Bank shares boundaries (demarcated by the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949) to the west, north, and south with Israel, and to the east, across the Jordan River, with Jordan. The West Bank also contains a significant section of the western Dead Sea shore.