The Palestinians are an Arab national group from the Southern Levant, predominantly the modern State of Israel.
Palestinians are predominantly Sunni Muslims, thought there are a minority of Christian and Shia Palestinians, as well as Druze and Samaritians that identify as Palestinian. There is dispute about when the Palestinian identity coalesced, be it in the post- or pre-war periods, and if it was an internal development or in direct response to the zionist movement.
The war that established Israel between Jewish and Arab forces resulted in a mass displacement of Palestinian Arabs. There is a significant diaspora of Palesitnians, especially in neighbouring Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs, of which many also identify as Palestinian. Many Diaspora Palesitnians, as well as those from families displaced from beyond the 1948 armistice lines, identify as refugees.
Many Palestinian political movements lay claim to all the land of Israel as the future Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority is one of the pirmary bodies that governs the Palestinians, with varying degrees of control in the West Bank. Palestinians have autonomy in Gaza, which is under the rule of Hamas.
Netanyahu is set to cement his strategic goals: tightening his military control over Gaza, thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions, and capitalizing on the dismantling of Tehran's allies.
"Those who imagine that the Palestinians have the remotest interest in a state are impeding themselves."
Normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia can only materialize when the war in Gaza ends, Saudi officials told Trump's Middle East envoy.
To create the impression that wine was produced in ancient times by a “Palestinian people” who were not Jewish is an act of identity erasure.
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The videos were discovered by security forces and show Hamas prison guards torturing prisoners and detaining them in harsh conditions.
Measures were taken by an arbitration committee following off-wiki coordination endeavors
The hypocrisy of these “progressives” should not dictate the outcome of the current battle.
Jewish extremists resisted the removal, including throwing rocks at soldiers and wounding two IDF troops.
"In the coming months, together we will multiply and combine our diplomatic initiatives to bring everyone along this path," Macron reportedly noted.
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