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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian Christians المسيحيون الفلسطينيون The Palestinian flag Total population ~500,000 (~6.5% of the global Palestinian population) (1990s–2000s estimate) Regions with significant populations Palestinian diaspora (~56%) Israel (~148,000) Occupied Palestinian Territory ...
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 ...
Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, romanized: al-Filasṭīniyyūn) are an Arab ethnonational group native to the region of Palestine. [35] [36] [37] [38]In 1919, Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Christians constituted 90 percent of the population of Palestine, just before the third wave of Jewish immigration and the setting up of British Mandatory Palestine after World War I.
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
An estimated 50,000 Christian Palestinians live in the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to the U.S. State Department’s international religious freedom report for 2022. Approximately 1,300 ...
The Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha'ab il-filastini) are an ethnonational group with family origins in the region of Palestine.Since 1964, they have been referred to as Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيين, al-filastiniyyin), but before that they were usually referred to as Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il ...
Palestinian Christians call themselves “living stones,” tracing their history to the birth of the Church in the Holy Land 2,000 years ago. Today, they fear Gaza’s small Christian community ...
Many Palestinian Christians hold high-ranking positions in Palestinian society, particularly at the political and social levels. They manage the high ranking schools, universities, cultural centers and hospitals, however, Christian communities in the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip have greatly dwindled over the last two decades.