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The Gaza Strip (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː z ə / ⓘ; [11] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣaz.za]), also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine.
The Arab citizens of Israel form Israel’s largest ethnic minority. [4] [5] They are mostly former Palestinian citizens who have continued to live in what became Israel, and their descendants. [6] The majority of Arabs in Israel now prefer to be identified as Palestinian citizens of Israel. [7] [8] [9] [10]
As recently as 2001, genetic research was incomplete enough that genetic scientists still cited theories about the roots of today's Palestinians' in present-day Israel/Palestine dating back only 1200 BC — in one theory, from Egyptian garrisons that were abandoned to their own fate in Canaan, in another, from immigrants from Crete or the Aegean, conflating Palestinians with "Philistines ...
Israel has said that its sustained military campaign in Gaza is designed to root out what remains of Hamas, following the Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people in Israel and saw more than 250 ...
Arab/Palestinian citizens of Israel may refer to themselves by a wide range of terms. Each of these names, while referring to the same group of people, connotes a different balance in what is often a multilayered identity assigning varying levels of priority or emphasis to the various dimensions which may be historic-geographic ("Palestine (region)"), "national" or ethnoreligious (Palestinian ...
It comes as Israel launched its first ground attacks into Gaza on Friday after Hamas carried out an assault on southern Israel on Saturday, killing at least 1,300 people and injuring more than 3,000.
The case rests on a central disagreement over Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 23,000 people, including upward of 7,000 children, according to the health ministry in ...
Palestinians born outside of Palestinian authority to a Palestinian citizen can also apply for this passport. [2] For example Daniel Barenboim , born in Argentina of Jewish parents, and a citizen of Argentina, Israel, and Spain, has been granted Palestinian citizenship and passport.