As multiple world leaders prepare to extend recognition of sovereignty to Palestinians at the United Nations General Assembly next month, Israeli officials are claiming that soon there will be no state to recognize.

The West Bank — sometimes referred to in Israel as Judea and Samaria, its Biblical name — is an approximately 2,185 square mile territory west of the Jordan River. It is home to over 3 million Palestinians, as well as hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers whose right to continue their expansion is at the center of ongoing international disputes.