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Israel
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Figure 16. Israeli Settlements in the Golan Heights, 1985
Figure 17. Israeli Settlements in the West Bank, October 1986
Figure 18. Israeli Settlements in the Gaza Strip, January 1988
In the course of the June 1967 War, Israel occupied the West
Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the
Sinai Peninsula. As a result of the 1979 Treaty of Peace Between
Egypt and Israel, the Sinai Peninsula was restored to Egypt. Israel
unilaterally annexed East Jerusalem soon after the June 1967 War,
reasserting this fact in July 1980, and in 1981 it annexed the
Golan Heights
(see
fig. 16). As of 1988, the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip, with a combined population of at least 1,400,000 Arabs,
remained under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. The
57,000 Jews residing in settlements in the two territories in 1988
came under the central government of Israel proper
(see figs. 17
and 18).
The primary mission of the military government was to maintain
internal security in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Border
Police, the Shin Bet, the Israel Police, and the IDF all shared in
the task of maintaining order. Immediately upon occupation of the
territories in June 1967, Israel launched an intense pacification
program. Harsh measures were used to suppress local noncooperation
campaigns, strikes, and especially terrorist activities. Local
residents whom Israeli officials deemed subversive were deported,
Arab homes believed to house anti-Israeli activists and their
supporters were destroyed, and dissenters could be placed in
administrative detention for up to six months. These and other
repressive measures derived from the emergency regulations of the
British Mandate period.
Data as of December 1988
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