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. The lowest point on earth. It includes the Dead Sea, which is metres below sea level.
The Jordan Valley is the border region between historic Palestine and Jordan. Politically, as long as there is an Israeli army presence in the Jordan Valley, there is no possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank.
One of the largest neighbourhoods in Gaza City, with around , Palestinian residents. The area was frequently targeted by Israeli airstrikes in During Israel's "Operation Protective Edge" in , Israeli forces launched a massive military assault on the neighbourhood, killing at least Palestinians and forcing residents to flee. Overwhelmingly, international opinion continues to consider East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as occupied territory.
One of Israel's land borders was formalised for the first time in , when Egypt became the first Arab country to recognise the Jewish state. Under the treaty, Israel's border with Egypt was set and Israel withdrew all its forces and settlers from the Sinai, a process which was completed in That left Israel in occupation of the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, with its frontiers excluding that of Egypt still delineated by the armistice lines.
In , Jordan became the second Arab state to recognise Israel, formalising its long border with the Jewish state in the process. While there has not yet been a peace treaty between Israel and Lebanon, the two countries' armistice line serves as Israel's de facto northern border, while Israel's border with Syria remains unsettled.
Similarly, Israel has had a de facto border with Gaza since it pulled its troops and settlers out in , but Gaza and the West Bank are considered a single occupied entity by the UN, and the official borders have not yet been determined.
The final status and contours of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are meant to be decided in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians living there under Israeli occupation, but decades of on-off talks have so far proved fruitless. Despite its said commitment to human rights, Google Maps is violating international law and agreements about the geography of Palestine West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and is disregarding the restrictions to movement imposed on Palestinians by the Israeli occupation, putting their lives in danger.
Instead, Google Maps is adopting the Israeli narrative of space, which is illegal according to international law. Furthermore, several communities marginalized by the occupation and under constant threat of demolition and forced displacement, such as Khan al-Ahmar, can only find their homes on Google Maps when zooming in to a very high degree.
This is contributing and assisting the planned erasure of these areas, not only from maps, but from the land by the occupation. Additionally, the Google Maps route planning services are designed for settlers, whose presence is illegal in the West Bank.
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