Rule of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan
| West Bank | ||||||||||
| الضفة الغربية Aḍ-Ḍiffah l-Ġarbiyyah |
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_1955.png) Contemporary map, 1955
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| Capital | Not specified | |||||||||
| Languages | Arabic | |||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | |||||||||
| Government | Not specified | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Established | 1948 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1967 | ||||||||
| Currency | Jordanian dinar | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Palestinian AuthorityJudea and Samaria area East Jerusalem |
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The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank was the occupation and consequent annexation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) by Jordan (formerly Transjordan) in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. During the war, Jordan's Arab Legion conquered the Old City of Jerusalem and took control of territory on the western side of the Jordan River, including the cities of Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus. At the end of hostilities, Jordan was in complete control of the West Bank.
Following the December 1948 Jericho Conference, and the 1949 renaming of the country from Transjordan to Jordan, the West Bank was formally annexed on 24 April 1950.
The annexation was widely considered as illegal and void by the international community.A month afterward, the Arab League declared that they viewed the area "annexed by Jordan as a trust in its hands until the Palestine case is fully solved in the interests of its inhabitants." Recognition of Jordan's declaration of annexation was only granted by the United Kingdom, Iraq and Pakistan. Jordan transferred its citizenship to the residents of the West Bank, the annexation more than doubled the population of Jordan.
Prior to hostilities in 1948, all of the country known as Palestine (including the West Bank) had been under the British-controlled Mandate Government of Palestine, since 1917. Prior to that time, the country had been under Ottoman Turk occupation since 1517. The British, as custodians of the land, implemented the land tenure laws in Palestine, which it had inherited from the Ottoman Turks (as defined in the Ottoman Land Code of 1858), applying these laws unto, both, Arab and Jewish legal tenants or otherwise. Toward the expiration of the British Mandate, Arabs aspired for independence and self-determination, as did the Jews of the country.
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