Org petition was also started soon to put Palestine back on the map. Google has always attempted to stay out of regions where there are border disputes, including Kashmir in India and Pakistan.
In countries where we have local versions of Google Maps, we follow local legislation when displaying names and borders. Palestine Removed From Google Maps? But Palestine does not find an official marker on Google. Tags palestine palestine google maps palestine removed from google maps. Disclaimer Close. This region has a strategic location between Jordan in the east, Lebanon and part of modern Israel to the north, Mediterranean Sea to the west, and Negev and Gulf of Aqaba to the South.
Syria, Egypt, and the Arabian nations are its neighboring countries. This region is also occasionally called the Holy Land as it is considered the birth place of Judaism. For Christians also, this place is of great importance mainly because Jesus Christ lived and died here. Historically, this region has been under constant controversy and political instability due to confusion about its boundary with Israel. In November after a long struggle, the region of Palestine became a non-member observer state of the United Nations.
The terms of the mandate entrusted Britain with establishing in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people", so long as doing so did not prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities there. The rise of Palestinian Arab nationalism coupled with the rapid growth of Palestine's smaller Jewish population - especially after the advent of Nazism in the s - saw an escalation in Arab-Jewish violence in Palestine.
Britain handed the problem to the United Nations, which in proposed partitioning Palestine into two states - one Jewish, one Arab - with the Jerusalem-Bethlehem area to become an international city.
The plan was accepted by Palestine's Jewish leadership but rejected by Arab leaders. The Jewish leadership in Palestine declared the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May , the moment the British mandate terminated, though without announcing its borders. The following day Israel was invaded by five Arab armies, marking the start of Israel's War of Independence. Construction began in and has resulted in the confiscation of Palestinian land by Israel and the ghettoisation of Palestinian communities.
Founded in by the Zionist movement on the Mediterranean coast of historic Palestine, near Jaffa. It is the second most populous city in Israel, after Jerusalem. It is the fifth most visited city in the Middle East. Highway 6 runs from northern to southern Israel. One of Israel's largest infrastructure projects, it helps Israeli settlers commute between illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and Israel.
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