Event · Land & rights28 June 1967

Israel annexes East Jerusalem

إسرائيل تضمّ القدس الشرقية

Exact day28 June 1967

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When
28 June 1967Exact day
Where
Jerusalemapproximate position
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86 · Defining momentDeclaration, resolution or agreement
Sources
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On 28 June 1967 Israel adopted legislation annexing East Jerusalem, occupied that month, and placing it under the West Jerusalem municipality.

The annexation

The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that on 28 June 1967 Israel adopted legislation annexing East Jerusalem, uniting it under the administration of the West Jerusalem municipality. The United Nations study records that in the 1967 war Israel occupied the rest of Palestine, including the remaining part of Jerusalem, the city being made the Israeli capital, and that the war brought a second exodus of Palestinians, estimated at half a million.12

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  • PlaceJerusalem

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Within a yearThe June 1967 war and occupation, UN resolution 242, The Battle of Karameh, The Maghrebi Quarter is razed

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  1. Jerusalem ↗

    PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Michael Fischbach)

    Original-language quotation · en
    On 28 June 1967, Israel adopted legislation annexing East Jerusalem
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  2. The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part II: 1947–1977 ↗

    United Nations · section: IX. The status of the Palestinian entity

    Original-language quotation · en
    This included the remaining part of Jerusalem, the city being made the Israeli capital. The war brought a second exodus of Palestinians, estimated at half a million.
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article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies

Jerusalem

Michael Fischbach, “Jerusalem”, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).

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document · United Nations

The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part II: 1947–1977

The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, part II, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.

Published: date not recordedConsulted: 2026-10-17

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06-28 · occurrence
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