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A Palestinian girl in Qalqilya.. A 2015 study by Verónica Fernandes and others concluded that Palestinians have a "primarily indigenous origin". [28]In a 2016 study by Scarlett Marshall and others published in Nature, the study concluded that the biogeographical affinities of "both Syrians and Palestinians are highly localised to the Levant", the authors also noted that the biogeographical ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Palestinian people are an ethnonational group with family origins in the region of Palestine. Since 1964, they have been referred to as Palestinians, but before that they were usually referred to as Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini). During the ...
Another people in Palestine was the Edomites. Originally, their kingdom occupied the southern area of modern-day Jordan but later they were pushed westward by nomadic tribes coming from the east, among them the Nabataeans, and therefore migrated into southern parts of Judea. This migration had already begun a generation or two before the ...
The displacement of the Palestinian people on that date is still marked every year on “Nakba Day”, named for an Arabic word for “catastrophe” and on which Palestinians give speeches, hold ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ethnic group Palestinians الفلسطينيون (Arabic) al-Filasṭīniyyūn Flag of Palestine Total population 14.3 million Regions with significant populations Palestine 5,350,000 – West Bank 3,190,000 (of whom 912,879 are registered refugees as of 2024) – Gaza Strip 2,170,000 (of whom ...
There was no Palestine in the Western sense of a nation-state and no Palestinian people in the Western sense of a national group taking explicit possession of and improving its national territory. By Western definition, Palestinians, like many other native peoples around the world, did not exist.
What the keffiyeh means to Palestinians. For many Palestinians and people of Arab descent around the world, the keffiyeh serves as a crucial link to their culture.
Regardless of its intention or viability, the alleged plan to transform the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave on Israel’s western flank into the “riviera of the Middle East” has been condemned ...