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GDP per capita in the Palestinian territories rose by 7% per year from 1968 to 1980 but slowed during the 1980s. Between 1970 and 1991 life expectancy rose from 56 to 66 years, infant mortality per 1,000 fell from 95 to 42, households with electricity rose from 30% to 85%, households with safe water rose from 15% to 90%, households with a refrigerator rose from 11% to 85%, and households with ...
The first head of the PBC was Fatah activist and Arafat loyalist Radwan Abu Ayyash, former head of the Arab Journalists' Association. [1] PBC had a terrestrial television network, comprising channel 5 in Naplose, channel 21 in Khan Younis, channel 21 in Jericho (very low power), channel 23 in Kasser-Elhakim, channel 25 in the capital Ramallah, channel 30 in Halhul, channel 31 in Jenin and ...
Ma'an News Agency (MNA; Arabic: وكالة معا الإخبارية) is a large wire service created in 2005 in the Palestinian territories. [1] [2] It is part of the Ma'an Network, a non-governmental organization media network created in 2002 [1] in the Palestinian territories among independent journalists throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Over 450,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank, with another 220,000 in east Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
Watch live from the Israel-Palestine border on Monday, 13 November, as the World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza's main hospital "is not functioning as a hospital anymore". Hospitals ...
Based in Ramallah, it provides media broadcast services and production services to media outlets such as Russia Today, the BBC, Al-Mayadeen, Al-Manar, and Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV, Al-Aqsa TV, and Palestine Today. [6] [7] In July 2017, the Israeli military raided Palmedia's offices in Ramallah on suspicion of "incitement to terrorism."
Examples of channels include Al-Aqsa TV, Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, Al-Qasid TV, Palestinian Satellite Channel, formerly Sanabel TV and Al-Quds TV. [ 2 ] References
The Finance Minister of the Palestinian Authority is the head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) branch that is in charge of finance. The minister deals with launching audits, collecting tax from Palestinian businesses and overseeing financial aid directed to the PNA.