Gaza and the West Bank: Palestine, فلسطين

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Life in Palestine - DualKnowledge

Gaza and the West Bank (Palestine / Filasteen)

فلسطين

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Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha'ab il-filastini), Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيين, al-filastiniyyin), or Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini) are terms used today to refer to a nation[1] of predominantly Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine.

The total Palestinian population worldwide is estimated to be between 10 to 11 million people, over half of whom are stateless, lacking citizenship in any country.[2] Palestinians are predominantly Sunni Muslims, though there is a significant Christian minority, whose presence in the Holy Land can be traced back to earliest days of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Palestinian people as a whole are represented before the international community by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).[5] The Palestinian National Authority, created as a result of the Oslo Accords is an interim administrative body nominally responsible for governance in Palestinian population centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

There are 4,255,120 Palestinians registered as refugees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). This number includes the descendants of refugees from the 1948 war, but excludes those who have emigrated to areas outside of UNRWA's remit.[38] Based on these figures, almost half of all Palestinians are registered refugees. The 993,818 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and 705,207 Palestinian refugees in the West Bank who hail from towns and villages that now located in Israel are included in these UNRWA figures.[54] UNRWA figures do not include some 274,000 people, or 1 in 4 of all Arab citizens of Israel, who are internally displaced Palestinian refugees.

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