Demographic Detective Work: The Population of Palestine: Population Statistics of the Late Ottoman Period and the Mandate. . Justin McCarthy Palestinian history had existed in an uninterrupted fashion long before the arrival of European Jewish colonists in the late nineteenth century. Sadly, that histo...
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Our humanitarian partners report that the entire population of Gaza needs humanitarian assistance, including more than 58,000 people with disabilities who face further challenges in accessing food there.” The UN[…] ...
The town dwellers, identified as the original Semitic population, can, for the sake of convenience, be called Canaanites, although the term is not attested before the middle of the 2nd millennium bce. (See Canaan.) In the course of the 3rd millennium, therefore, walled towns began to ...
including an Arab state, with or without a significant Jewish population, a Jewish state, with or without a significant Arab population, a single bi-national state, with or without some degree of cantonization, two states, one bi-national and one Arab, with or ...
This paper considers the war crime at Article 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute, 'the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies', by addressing the doctrinal elements of the provision in light of...
On Feb. 27, United Nations officials alerted the Security Council to the imminent famine in the Gaza Strip, stressing the urgent need for action to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Palestinian territory. At least 576,000 people in Gaza, or about one-quarter of the population, are "one...
Population.—There are no trustworthy estimates of the number of inhabitants in the country at any period of its history. Certain districts, such is Galilee, have, there is no doubt, from early times been much more populous than certain other districts ; the desert of Judah and some portions...
Israel's biggest and busiest city is Tel Aviv, shown above in airview, looking from the beach towards the heart of the city with its cluster of modern homes and buildings. Combined with adjacent Jaffa, the city has a population of 400,000. Near Tel Aviv is the big international aerodrome...
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Known as theGoldstone Report(Justice Richard Goldstone chaired the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict) itcalledIsrael’s military attack: “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both...