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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to ...
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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clickable map of the more than 400 depopulated towns and villages of the 1948 Palestinian exodus (red) and the c. 60 modern day Palestinian refugee camps (blue) Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country, village or ...
“I see God in the rubble,” said Munther Isaac, the Palestinian pastor of a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the West Bank town revered by Christians as Jesus’ birthplace. “And Christ ...
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 ... for Palestine Refugees in the Near ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clickable map of the Palestinian refugee camps Palestinian refugee camps were first established to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight during the 1948 Palestine war. Camps were established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nakba of 1948 Part of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict Palestinians being displaced after the fall of Haifa, accompanied by armed Haganah personnel. Location Mandatory Palestine Date 31 December 1947 – 20 July 1949 Target Palestinian Arabs Attack type Ethnic ...
Since then, Israel has rejected Palestinian demands for a return of refugees as part of a peace deal, arguing that it would threaten the country’s Jewish majority. ... fueling further conflict.