Why did Israel begin to move Jewish people into areas captured in the Six Day War?
As a result of the Six Day War, Israel gained all of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Sinai, the Gaza Strip, and Judea and Samaria, known as the West Bank since its capture by Jordan in 1948. Almost immediately, Jews began to return to those areas to re-settle territories commonly referred to as areas “outside the Green Line” (the pre-1967 border). The motivations of the inhabitants, or settlers, of these areas ranges from political, ideological or religious goals to financial considerations as they seek cheaper, more spacious living quarters commonly available outside the Green Line. [All settlements in the Sinai were dismantled as part of the Israel-Egypt 1979 peace treaty.] Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza Strip throughout recorded history, until the 1948 War of Independence, when they were forced to flee the invading Arab armies. Indeed, some of the current Jewish settlement communities existed prior to 1948, when they where overrun by invading Arab armies
