Rafah is a city along the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. During the Israel-Hamas War it became a final refuge for both civilians and what Israeli officials claimed was the “last bastion” of Hamas fighters.
Houthi rebels, engaged in civil war in Yemen with the support of Iran, made attempts to strike Israel and attack ships passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in response to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. (more) Yemeni Civil War [2014-present] Ask the Chatbot a Question ...
At its peak in 1939, the world Jewish population stood at 16.6 million, of whom 449,000 lived in the land of Israel, at the time ruled by a British mandate introduced following the Ottoman defeat in Palestine in World War I. But by 1948, the year that Israel was established as an ind...
There are an additional 1.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and a further 1 million in Gaza. North and South America Estimated Jewish Population distribution in the Americas 1/1/2001: CountryJewish PopulationJews Per 1,000 Population ...
The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday after the US abstained, leading Israel to cancel a high-level visit to Washington. In the first such demand since the war began in October, the resolution called for an immediate cessation of hostilities for th...
The report also puts the number of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip at approximately 1.4 million, in the West Bank at approximately 2.4 million, and in East Jerusalem at nearly 240,000. The figures were analysed by the website The Electronic Intifada. This new reality has to be ...
Since 1981, responsibility for preparing annual population estimates for world Jewry was taken by the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Division was founded by Roberto Bachi in 1959, was headed ...
146. See Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, Michael Wise, Yoram Ettinger, David Shahaf, Ezra Sohar, David Passig, and Avraham Shvout,Arab Population In the West Bank and Gaza: The Million and a Half Person Gap(Washington, 2005); Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid, and Michael L. Wise,The Milli...
generally defined as a region bounded on the east by the Jordan River, on the north by the border between modern Israel and Lebanon, on the west by the Mediterranean Sea (including the coast of Gaza), and on the south by theNegev, with its southernmost extension reaching theGulf of Aqaba...
As a result of secret negotiations begun in January 1993, Israel and the PLO in September reached agreement on a plan to gradually extend self-government to the Palestinians of the West Bank (and Gaza Strip) over a five-year period prior to a final settlement of the issue of Palestinian st...