East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem (Arabic: القدس الشرقية, romanized: al-Quds ash-Sharqiya; Hebrew: מִזְרַח יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, romanized: Mizraḥ Yerushalayim), the portion of Jerusalem east of the Green Line established formally by the armistice agreements at the end of the 1948 Palestine war, the territory which the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations consider to be the capital and part of the Palestinian territories according to international law, and under illegal occupation by Israel. Many states (e.g.