The claim: No label for Palestine on Google Maps. In 2016, #PalestineIsHere began trending after supporters of the Palestinian cause condemned Google for supposedly removing the word “Palestine ...

However, the Maps app never had that label in the first place, and Google tells Engadget that a glitch is to blame for the change. ... Google shows a dashed border around West Bank and Gaza, ...

Petition to include label for Palestine on online maps has received more than 800,000 signatures. ... Israel captured and occupied the West Bank, Gaza strip and Golan Heights during the 1967 war.