West Bank in Asia
West Bank History
Contested territory on the west bank of the River Jordan in the Middle East. Belonged to the Ottomans but was incorporated into the British Mandate of Palestine after the First World War. Captured by Jordan in 1948 and by Israel in 1967. It now has many Israeli settlements
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