In 1992, about 120, 000 Palestinians from the occupied territories worked in Israel on a regular basis.
But, were the date put off, the scales would tip in favour of younger men from the occupied territories.
In 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a peace agreement outlining a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories.
He added that excavating archaeological objects from the West Bank without Palestinian sanction was in violation of an international convention that governs antiquities in occupied territories.
Mr Hawatmeh also said that any final deal must be subject to a referendum of all Palestinians, in the occupied territories and in the diaspora.
The main international treaty which governs archaeology in occupied territories is the Hague Convention of 1954, which deals by-and-large with the preservation of culturally significant sites.
Spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume said the WFP expected to distribute an initial 650 tons of food to 13, 000 of the most vulnerable families in the occupied territories in coming days.
Last year he attempted to kick-start negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and picked a fight with Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, over Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
Hence America's urgently expressed concern about the fresh surge of violence in Israel and the occupied territories, and the pressure it is exerting to rescue the all-but collapsed ceasefire.
When it began, the American ambassador to Israel told the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, that the destruction of Mr Arafat's headquarters was undermining the quiet that Washington seeks in the occupied territories ahead of any American strike on Iraq.
While overpowering in its numbers and scope, this picture was nevertheless incomplete and left out the multitude of smaller components of the network spread over the occupied territories from France to the Ukraine and from Estonia to Austria.
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At his departmental question session on 4 December 2012, Mr Hague described Israel's plan to extend settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as the "wrong way to react" to the vote.
The foreign secretary said he believed the Occupied Palestinian Territories had largely met the criteria for UN membership but the government wanted the Quartet - the United Nations, EU, Russia and the United States - to help the Israelis and Palestinians resume "meaningful negotiations" and reach a two-state deal.
Since the time the Eritrean army invaded Ethiopian territories, the position of Ethiopia's government has been clear: the Eritrean forces should withdraw from the Ethiopian territories occupied by force, in order to end the conflict peacefully.
In a dramatic shift, Turkey even dropped its long-running precondition that Armenia must withdraw from the territories that it occupied in the 1990s after its war with Azerbaijan over the mainly Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The properties range from 1, 000-year-old fortress ruins to elegant palaces built around the turn of the last century, which were typically occupied by German nobility who oversaw small kingdoms or territories.
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