You saw that words matter, what term do you prefer? I asked for that but got three paragraphs of accusation of being “pro-Palestinian” and being told that I’m misusing a word but not what the correct term is. I suspect this is at least in part due to the conflation with the question illegality in your third paragraph: use of the term is well established but there’s considerable debate over whether it was ever legal or still is.

Here, for example, note that use of the term occupied is established enough to be used in official UN documents:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...

Similarly, the ICRC uses presence rather than trying to make complex judgements about the relative merits:

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/634kfc....