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Caricatures depicting all of Israel as a snake appeared in Palestinian papers such as Felesteen [96] and Al-Ayyam. [43] In the years 2004-2010 Palestinian Authority TV repeatedly broadcast a music video that describes Israel as "a snake coiled around the land". [101] Israel and Zionism are sometimes depicted in Palestinian sources as crocodiles ...
Blatant dehumanization in the asymmetric Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mutual, with people on both sides likening the other's brutality to animal behaviour. Israel is one of the highest income countries in the world, and an advanced military power. The Palestinian territories have no standing army and a GDP of only 3% of Israel's. [24]
Israel contains a variety of mammals due to its geographical and climatic diversity. For many of the mammals, Israel is the border of their territory. The territories of species which originate in the Palearctic generally stop at the deserts and those who originate from the African deserts usually stop at the Mediterranean coasts.
The region is home to a variety of plants and animals; at least 47,000 living species have been identified, with another 4,000 assumed to exist. At least 116 mammal species are native to Palestine/Israel, as well as 511 bird species, 97 reptile species, and 7 amphibian species. There are also an estimated 2,780 plant species.
The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), also called the true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, [3] [4] [5] is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed. [ 6 ] Approximately 6,000 are left in the wild as of 2024.
National animals of the Levant: Arabian oryx (Jordan), mountain gazelle and hoopoe (), striped hyena (Lebanon), Palestine sunbird (Palestine), and saker falcon (Syria). The wildlife of the Levant encompasses all types of wild plants and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fresh and saltwater fish, and invertebrates, that inhabit the region historically known as the Levant ...
Netanyahu has vowed to annihilate Hamas following its deadly assault on unsuspecting Israeli communities on Saturday, which killed more than 1,300 people, the deadliest attack by Palestinian ...
Indian porcupine Caucasian squirrel Greater Egyptian jerboa Palestine mole rat Sand rat Drawing of a short-tailed bandicoot rat Eastern spiny mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.