Terminology

Samaria was the name of one of the authoritative districts of the British Mandate of Palestine. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) Future Government of Palestine, adopted in 1947, referred to "Samaria and Judea" as allotment of a proposed Arab accompaniment to be carved out of the Mandate of Palestine but the boundaries of "Samaria and Judea" did not absolutely accompany with the accepted Judea and Samaria area. Trans-Jordan (renamed Jordan in 1949) captured best but not all of the UN-described Samaria and Judea during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and Jordan referred to the breadth it captured as the "West Bank."citation needed The breadth was captured from Jordan by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. While the appellation "Judea and Samaria" was clearly adopted by the Israeli government in 1967 it was not acclimated abundantly until the Likud affected appointment in 1977.2

The name Judea, back acclimated in Judea and Samaria, refers to all of the arena south of Jerusalem, including Gush Etzion and Har Hebron. The arena of Samaria, on the added hand, refers to the breadth arctic of Jerusalem. Much of the breadth of the West Bank abutting to Jerusalem, including that allotment of the burghal that was beneath Jordanian rule, has been congenital into Jerusalem District and is beneath Israeli noncombatant rule. That allotment of the West Bank is appropriately afar from the authoritative anatomy that is the Judea and Samaria Area.

Many Palestinians article to the appellation "Judea and Samaria" as a bounce of their affirmation to the area. In left-wing Hebrew media, such as Haaretz, it is additionally referred to as "HaGada HaMa'aravit" (הגדה המערבית "The West Bank") or "Hashetahim" (השטחים, The Territories).