The political status of the territories has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the PLO and of numerous statements and resolutions by the United Nations. (See List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel.) Since 1994, the autonomous Palestinian National Authority has exercised various degrees of control in large parts of the territories, as a result of the Declaration of Principles contained in the Oslo Accords. The United States government considers the West Bank and Gaza as a single entity for political, economic, legal and other purposes.
The political status of the territories has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the PLO and of numerous statements and resolutions by the United Nations (See List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel) Since 1994 the autonomous Palestinian National Authority has exercised various degrees of control in large parts of the territories as a result of the Declaration of Principles contained in the Oslo Accords The United States government considers the West Bank and Gaza as a single entity for political economic legal and other purposes