Dr Meir Rosen, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Ministry, explains that the Geneva Convention does not define Judea and Samaria as ‘occupied territory’, and acknowledges that the areas are only ‘disputed’. Furthermore, the PA is not a state, and has no such legal status. Additionally, terrorists held in Israel are not acknowledged by the Geneva Convention as POWs, since they concealed their weapons and targeted innocent civilians. Geneva considers the settlements legal, just not legitimate.