premise: The State of Palestine claims the West Bank.
hypothesis: Palestinians . Despite various wars and exoduses ( such as that in 1948 ) , roughly one half of the world 's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine , the area encompassing the West Bank , the Gaza Strip and Israel . The Palestinian National Authority , officially established as a result of the Oslo Accords , is an interim administrative body nominally responsible for governance in Palestinian population centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . The State of Judea ( , Medīnat Yəhuda ) is a proposed halachic state in the West Bank put forward by Israeli Jewish settlers . After the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) declared the existence of a Palestinian state in 1988 , some settler activists ( primarily Kahanists ) feared that international pressure would lead Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and sought to lay the groundwork for an Orthodox Jewish state in the West Bank if this came to pass . State of Palestine . The State of Palestine claims the West Bank ( bordering Israel and Jordan ) and Gaza Strip ( bordering Israel and Egypt ) with East Jerusalem as the designated capital .