Diplomatic Service
(asked on 1st March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what guidance his Department provides to UK diplomatic posts overseas on the official terminology that should be used to refer to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
This question was answered on 6th March 2018
The British Government officially refers to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and considers them to consist of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, based on 1967 borders.