The Palestinian territories

Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

or Occupied Palestinian Territory are two conventional name used, among others, to describe the territories of the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...

, East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War...

 and the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...

, which were designated as the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority in the Palestinian-Israeli agreement of 13 September 1993. Occasionally these territories are also referred to as Palestine, which creates some ambiguity with the term Palestine

Palestine

Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

 as a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.

The final status of the Palestinian territories and their final boundaries are two issues that have been subject to deep dispute within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...

. The names and terminology used to describe the territory or locations within its current boundaries are also often disputed. In the Palestinian National Charter, the Palestinian homeland

Homeland

A homeland is the concept of the place to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with —the country in which a particular national identity began. As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin...

 is defined as the territory of British Mandate Palestine (excluding Transjordan

Transjordan

The Emirate of Transjordan was a former Ottoman territory in the Southern Levant that was part of the British Mandate of Palestine...

). The State of Israel was established as a national homeland for the Jews

Jews

The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...

 in approximately three-quarters of this territory in May 1948, amid the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

. The remaining quarter, comprising the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...

 and the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...

 (including what is now known as East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War...

), were occupied by Egypt

Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt

The administration of the Gaza Strip by Egypt occurred between 1948 and October 1956, and again from March 1957 to June 1967. Egypt did not annex the Gaza Strip but left it under Egyptian military rule as a temporary arrangement pending the resolution of the Palestine Question.-Background:After...

 and by Jordan, and later by Israel

Israeli-occupied territories

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory seized by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967 from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria...

 during the 1967 Six Day War.

The Palestinian people, including the Palestinian diaspora

Palestinian diaspora

Palestinian diaspora is a term used to describe Palestinians living outside of historic Palestine - an area today known as Israel and the Palestinian territories or the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip...

, have been represented before the international community by the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed...

 (PLO) since its establishment in 1964. In November 1988, the Palestinian National Council

Palestinian National Council

The Palestinian National Council is the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization and elects its Executive Committee, which assumes leadership of the organization between its sessions. The Council normally meets every two years. Resolutions are passed by a simple majority with a...

 (PNC), the parliament-in-exile of the PLO proclaimed the establishment

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

The Palestinian Declaration of Independence is a statement written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and proclaimed by Yasser Arafat on 15 November 1988. It had previously been adopted by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization , by a vote...

 of the State of Palestine, diplomatically recognized by several tens of countries. Deviating from the usual criteria governing the classic definition of a state

Nation-state

The nation state is a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit. The state is a political and geopolitical entity; the nation is a cultural and/or ethnic entity...

 or country

Country

A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...

, the precise boundaries of Palestine have yet to be determined and full autonomy has yet to be secured. The Palestinian National Authority

Palestinian National Authority

The Palestinian Authority is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...

, established pursuant to the Oslo Accords

Oslo Accords

The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles , was an attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict...

, is an interim administrative body responsible for governance in population Palestinian centers in the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...

 and Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...

 until final status negotiations are concluded.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Palestinian territories:

General reference

• Pronunciation: ˈpælɨstaɪn
• Common English country names: Palestinian territories
  Palestinian territories
  The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...
  
  ; Occupied Palestinian Territories/Occupied Palestinian Territory/Palestinian Territory, Occupied; Palestinian Authority territories; Palestinian Authority areas; West Bank and Gaza Strip
• Official English country name: U.S. State Department: Palestinian Territories http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/pt/; E.U. ISO 3166-1: Palestinian Territory, Occupied http://www.iso.org/iso/newsletter_v-2_palestinian_territory_occupied.pdf; UN-affiliated organizations: Occupied Palestinian Territory http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/MENARegion/Pages/PSIndex.aspx
• Common endonym(s): al-ʼarāḍi-l-filasṭinīya ; filasṭīn ' onMouseout='HidePop("61933")' href="/topics/Transliteration">transliterated
  Transliteration
  Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
  
   falasṭīn and filisṭīn; al-ʼarāḍi-l-muḥtalla
• Official endonym(s): N/A
• Adjectival(s): Palestinian
• Demonym(s): Palestinian people
  Palestinian people
  The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
  
   (aš-šaʿb al-filasṭīnīy), Palestinians (al-filasṭīnīyūn), or Palestinian Arabs (al-ʿarab al-Filasṭīnīyūn)
• Etymology
  Etymology
  Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
  
  : Timeline of the name Palestine
  Timeline of the name Palestine
  This article presents a list of notable historical references to the name Palestine, and cognates such as Filastin and Palaestina, through the various time periods of the region....
  
  , Name of Palestine, Place names in Palestine
  Place names in Palestine
  Place names in Palestine have been the subject of much scholarship and contention, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. The significance of place names in Palestine lies in their potential to legitimize the historical claims asserted by the involved parties, all of whom claim...
  
  
• ISO country codes: PS, PSE, 275
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:PS
  ISO 3166-2:PS
  ISO 3166-2:PS is the entry for the Palestinian territories in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently no ISO 3166-2...
  
  
• Internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   country code top-level domain
  Country code top-level domain
  A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
  
  : .ps
  .ps
  .ps is the Internet country code top-level domain ccTLD officially designated for the Palestinian territories.It is administered by the Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority.Registrations are processed via certified registrars....
  
  

Geography of the Palestinian territories

• The Palestinian territories are: Israeli-occupied/Semi-autonomous region, with status to be determined by further negotiations
• Location:
  • Northern Hemisphere
    Northern Hemisphere
    The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
    
     and Eastern Hemisphere
    Eastern Hemisphere
    The Eastern Hemisphere, also Eastern hemisphere or eastern hemisphere, is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that is east of the Prime Meridian and west of 180° longitude. It is also used to refer to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, vis-à-vis the Western Hemisphere, which includes...
    
    
  • Eurasia
    Eurasia
    Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
    
    
    • Asia
      Asia
      Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
      
      
      • Southwest Asia
        Southwest Asia
        Western Asia, West Asia, Southwest Asia or Southwestern Asia are terms that describe the westernmost portion of Asia. The terms are partly coterminous with the Middle East, which describes a geographical position in relation to Western Europe rather than its location within Asia...
        
        
        • Middle East
          Middle East
          The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
          
          
  • Time zone
    Time zone
    A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
    
    : UTC+02, summer UTC+03
  • Extreme points of the Palestinian territories
    • High: Tall Asur
      Tall Asur
      Tall Asur is the highest point of the Palestinian territories, with an altitude of 1,016 metres .-Sources:* - Peakbagger.com. Retrieved on 2011-02-04....
      
       1022 m (3,353 ft)
    • Low: Dead Sea
      Dead Sea
      The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...
      
       -412 m – lowest point on the surface of the Earth
      Earth
      Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
      
      
  • Land boundaries: Officially undefined, figures given are the de facto boundaries of the Green Line
    Green Line (Israel)
    Green Line refers to the demarcation lines set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and its neighbours after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
    
     as they apply to the West Bank
    West Bank
    The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
    
     and Gaza Strip
    Gaza Strip
    thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...
    
     (See also Israeli West Bank barrier
    Israeli West Bank barrier
    The Israeli West Bank barrier is a separation barrier being constructed by the State of Israel along and within the West Bank. Upon completion, the barrier’s total length will be approximately...
    
    , Israeli Gaza Strip barrier
    Israeli Gaza Strip barrier
    The Israel and Egypt − Gaza Strip barrier is a separation barrier first constructed by Israel in 1994 between the Gaza Strip and Israel. An addition to the barrier was finished in 2005 to separate the Gaza Strip and Egypt....
    
     and the Seam Zone
    Seam Zone
    Seam Zone is a term used to refer to a land area in the West Bank located east of the Green Line and west of Israel's separation barrier, populated largely by Israelis in settlements such as Alfei Menashe, Ariel, Beit Arye, Modi'in Illit, Giv'at Ze'ev, Ma'ale Adumim, Beitar Illit and Efrat.As of...
    
    )
• Total: 466 km (289.6 mi)

 Israel 358 km (222.5 mi)

 Jordan 97 km (60.3 mi)

 Egypt 11 km (6.8 mi)

• Coastline: Mediterranean Sea
  Mediterranean Sea
  The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
  
   40 km (24.9 mi)
• Population of the Palestinian territories
  Palestinian people
  The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
  
  :
  • Palestinian population worldwide, including diaspora: est. 10,000,000 - 11,000,000
  • Population of the Palestinian territories
    Demographics of the Palestinian territories
    This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Palestinian territories, including ethnicity, education level, health of the populous, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
    
    : est. 3,800,000
• Area of the Palestinian territories:
  • Palestinian territories
    Palestinian territories
    The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...
    
     (post-1967): 6220 km² (2,401.6 sq mi); The West Bank
    Geography of the West Bank
    Geography of the West BankLocation:Middle East, west of JordanGeographic coordinates: Map references:Middle EastArea:total:5,860 km²land:5,640 km²water:220 km²note:...
    
     (including East Jerusalem
    East Jerusalem
    East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War...
    
    ) is (5860 km² (2,262.6 sq mi) and the Gaza Strip
    Geography of the Gaza Strip
    The Gaza Strip is located in the Middle East and consists of around 360sq km. It has an 11km border with Egypt, near the city of Rafah, and a 51km border with Israel...
    
     is 360 km² (139 sq mi)
• Atlas of Palestine

Environment of the Palestinian territories

• Climate of the Palestinian territories
  Mediterranean climate
  A Mediterranean climate is the climate typical of most of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, and is a particular variety of subtropical climate...
  
  
• Environmental issues in the Palestinian territories
• Ecoregions in the Palestinian territories
  • • Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
      Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
      The Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests ecoregion, in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, is of the eastern Mediterranean Basin.-Setting:...
      
      
• Renewable energy in the Palestinian territories
  • • Solar cookers in Gaza
• Geology of the Palestinian territories
  • Jerusalem stone
    Jerusalem stone
    Jerusalem stone is a name applied to various types of pale limestone, dolomite and dolomitic limestone, common in and around Jerusalem that have been used in building since ancient times...
    
    
  • Meleke
    Meleke
    Meleke — also transliterated melekeh or malaki — is a lithologic type of white, coarsely crystalline, thickly bedded limestone found in the Judean Hills in Israel and the West Bank. It has been used in the traditional architecture of Jerusalem since ancient times, especially in Herodian...
    
    
• Protected areas of the Palestinian territories
  • Biosphere reserves in the Palestinian territories
  • National parks of the Palestinian territories
• Wildlife of the Palestinian territories
  • Flora of the Palestinian territories
    • List of native plants of Palestine (A-D)
    • List of native plants of Palestine (E-O)
    • List of native plants of Palestine (P-Z)
      • Opuntia
        Opuntia
        Opuntia, also known as nopales or paddle cactus , is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.Currently, only prickly pears are included in this genus of about 200 species distributed throughout most of the Americas. Chollas are now separated into the genus Cylindropuntia, which some still consider...
        
        
  • Fauna of the Palestinian territories
    • Banded Newt
      Banded Newt
      The Southern Banded Newt is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family.It is found in Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Russian Federation, Syria, Turkey, and possibly Palestinian Territory, Occupied....
      
      
    • Calopteryx syriaca
      Calopteryx syriaca
      The Syrian Demoiselle is a species of damselfly in the family Calopterygidae. It is found in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, and Syria. Its natural habitats are along rivers and intermittent rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Odonata Specialist Group...
      
      
    • Telescopus hoogstraali
      Telescopus hoogstraali
      Telescopus hoogstraali is an endangered species of snake in the Colubridae family.-Geographic region:It is found around the Sinai region, in Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories, as well as Jordan.-Habitat:...
      
      
    • Birds of the Palestinian territories
    • Mammals of the Palestinian territories
      • Marbled Polecat
        Marbled polecat
        The marbled polecat is a small mammal belonging to the monotypic genus Vormela within the Mustelinae subfamily. Vormela is from the German word Würmlein, which means "little Worm". The term peregusna comes from pereguznya, which is Ukrainian for polecat...
        
        
      • Striped Hyena
        Striped Hyena
        The Striped Hyena is a species of true hyena native to North and East Africa, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Middle and Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent...
        
        
• Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network
  Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network
  The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a mandate to protect the environment of Palestine by acting as a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental organizations located in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
  
  

Natural geographic features of the Palestinian territories

• Glaciers of the Palestinian territories: N/A
• Islands of the Palestinian territories: N/A
• Lakes of the Palestinian territories
• Seas of the Palestinian territories
  • Dead Sea
    Dead Sea
    The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...
    
    
  • Mediterranean Sea
    Mediterranean Sea
    The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
    
    
• Mountains of the Palestinian territories
  • Volcanoes in the Palestinian territories
• Rivers of the Palestinian territories
  • Jordan River
    • Water politics in the Jordan River basin
      • Headwater Diversion Plan (Jordan River)
  • Wadi Fa'rah
    Wadi Fa'rah
    Wadi Fa'rah, a river in the northern West Bank that empties into the Jordan River at Jisr Damiya. It passes through the Palestinian village of Wadi al-Far'a...
    
    
  • Waterfalls of the Palestinian territories
• Wells of the Palestinian territories
  • Jubb Yussef (Joseph's Well)
    Jubb Yussef (Joseph's Well)
    The ruins at Jubb Yussef in the Galilee are identified with the pit in Dothan, into which the Biblical figure Joseph was cast into by his brothers, later to be sold to a caravan of Midianites making its way toward Egypt...
    
    
• Valleys of the Palestinian territories
  • Jordan Rift Valley
    Jordan Rift Valley
    The Jordan Rift Valley is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. This geographic region includes the Jordan River, Jordan Valley, Hula Valley, Lake Tiberias and the Dead Sea, the lowest land elevation on Earth...
    
    
    • Jordan Valley
      Jordan Valley (Middle East)
      The Jordan Valley forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. It is 120 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide, where it runs from Lake Tiberias in the north to northern Dead Sea in the south. It runs for an additional 155 kilometer south of the Dead Sea to Aqaba, an area also known as Wadi...
      
      
  • Wadi Qelt
    Wadi Qelt
    Wadi Qelt or Nahal Prat is a valley or stream running west to east across the Judean desert in the West Bank, originating near Jerusalem and terminating near Jericho, near the Dead Sea...
    
    
  • Villages named for Wadis ("Valleys")
    • Wadi al-Arayis
      Wadi al-Arayis
      Wadi al-Arayis is a Palestinian village located ten kilometers east of Bethlehem.The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,169 in mid-year 2006. The primary healthcare is obtained in...
      
      
    • Wadi Ara, Haifa (depopulated in 1948)
    • Wadi al-Far'a
      Wadi al-Far'a
      Wadi al-Far'a is a Palestinian village in the Tubas Governorate in the northeastern West Bank located five kilometers southwest of Tubas. It has a land area of 12,000 dunams, of which 337 is built-up and 10,500 are for agricultural purposes. It is under the complete control of the Palestinian...
      
      
    • Wadi Fukin
      Wadi Fukin
      Wadi Fukin is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, eight kilometers southwest of Bethlehem in the Bethlehem Governorate. The village is located between the Green Line and the Israeli West Bank barrier. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Wadi Fukin had a population of...
      
      

Ecoregions of the Palestinian territories

Administrative divisions of the Palestinian territories

• Administrative divisions of the Oslo Accords
  Administrative divisions of the Oslo Accords
  The Oslo Accords created three temporary distinct administrative divisions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip until a final status accord would be established...
  
  

Administrative divisions of the Palestinian National Authority

• Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority: 16 (11 in the West Bank, 5 in Gaza)
  • Electorial districts of the Palestinian National Authority: 16 (11 in the West Bank, 5 in Gaza)
    • Jerusalem Governorate
      Jerusalem Governorate
      The Jerusalem Governorate is one of 16 Palestinian governorates situated in the central portion of the West Bank. Its claimed district capital is East Jerusalem, which is, however, under Israeli occupation and regarded by Israel as being part of its territory. The total land area of the...
      
      : Jerusalem District
    • Bethlehem Governorate
      Bethlehem Governorate
      The Bethlehem Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories. It covers an area of the West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Its principal city and district capital is Bethlehem...
      
      : Bethlehem District
      Bethlehem
      Bethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank of the Jordan River, near Israel and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...
      
      
    • Deir Al-Balah Governorate
      Deir al-Balah Governorate
      The Deir el-Balah Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the central Gaza Strip which is administered by the Palestinian National Authority aside from its border with Israel, airspace and maritime territory. Its total land area consists of 56 sq. kilometers...
      
      : Deir Al-Balah District
    • Gaza Governorate
      Gaza Governorate
      The Gaza Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority located in the north central Gaza Strip which is administered by the Palestinian National Authority aside from its border with Israel, airspace and maritime territory. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau...
      
      : Gaza District
    • Hebron Governorate
      Hebron Governorate
      The Hebron Governorate is an administrative district of the Palestinian National Authority in the southern West Bank. It extends south to, and includes most of, the Dead Sea....
      
      : Hebron District
      Hebron
      Hebron , is located in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 165,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter...
      
      
    • Jenin Governorate
      Jenin Governorate
      The Jenin Governorate is one of a number of Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories, it covers the northern extremity of the West Bank including the area around the city of Jenin....
      
      : Jenin District
      Jenin
      Jenin is the largest town in the Northern West Bank, and the third largest city overall. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate and is a major agricultural center for the surrounding towns. In 2007, the city had a population of 120,004 not including the adjacent refugee...
      
      
    • Jericho Governorate
      Jericho Governorate
      The Jericho Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority within the Palestinian territories. It is located along the eastern areas of the West Bank, along the northern Dead Sea and southern Jordan River valley bordering Jordan...
      
      : Jericho District
      Jericho
      Jericho ; is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate and has a population of more than 20,000. Situated well below sea level on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea, Jericho is the lowest permanently...
      
      
    • Khan Yunis Governorate
      Khan Yunis Governorate
      The Khan Yunis Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority, located in the southern Gaza Strip. Its district capital is Khan Yunis. The governorate has a total population of approximately 280,000...
      
      : Khan Younis District
    • Nablus Governorate
      Nablus Governorate
      The Nablus Governorate is an administrative district of the Palestinian National Authoritylocated in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, 53km north of Jerusalem. It covers the area around the city of Nablus which serves as the muhfaza of the governorate...
      
      : Nablus District
      Nablus
      Nablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.Founded by the...
      
      
    • North Gaza Governorate
      North Gaza Governorate
      The North Gaza Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the Gaza Strip which is administered by the Palestinian National Authority aside from its border with Israel, airspace and maritime territory...
      
      : North Gaza District
    • Qalqilya Governorate
      Qalqilya Governorate
      The Qalqilya Governorate is an administrative area of the Palestinian National Authority in the northwestern West Bank. Its capital or muhfaza is the city of Qalqilya that borders the Green Line.-Towns and villages:* Azzun 'Atma* Baqah...
      
      : Qalqilya District
    • Rafah Governorate
      Rafah Governorate
      The Rafah Governorate is a governorate of the Palestinian National Authority in the southernmost portion of the Gaza Strip. Its district capital or muhfaza is the city of Rafah located on the border with Egypt. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the governorate had a...
      
      : Rafah District
      Rafah
      Rafah , also known as Rafiah, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. Located south of Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003 is overwhelmingly made up of Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate...
      
      
    • Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate
      Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate
      The Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It covers a large part of the central West Bank, on the northern border of the Jerusalem Governorate. Its district capital or muhfaza is the city of al-Bireh.According to the Palestinian Central...
      
      : Ramallah and Al-Bireh District
      Ramallah
      Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
      
      
    • Salfit Governorate
      Salfit Governorate
      The Salfit Governorate is one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority. It is located in the northwestern West Bank, bordered by the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh to the south, Nablus to the east and Qalqilya in the north as well as, Israel to the west. Its district capital...
      
      : Salfit District
      Salfit
      Salfit also spelled Salfeet is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank. Salfit is located at an altitude of in the central Samarian highlands adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Ariel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the City had a population of 8,796 in 2007....
      
      
    • Tubas Governorate
      Tubas Governorate
      The Tubas Governorate is an administrative district of the Palestinian National Authority in the northeastern West Bank. It district capital or muhfaza is the city of Tubas. In 2007, the population was 50,267.-Village councils:*Bardala*Ein al-Beida...
      
      : Tubas District
      Tubas
      Tubas or Toubas is a small Palestinian city in the northeastern West Bank, located northeast of Nablus, a few kilometers west of the Jordan River. A city of over 16,000 inhabitants, it serves as the economic and administrative center of the Tubas Governorate. Its urban area consists of 2,271 dunams...
      
      
    • Tulkarm Governorate
      Tulkarm Governorate
      The Tulkarm Governorate is an administrative district and one of 16 Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority located in the northwestern West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometers. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the governorate had a...
      
      : Tulkarm District
      Tulkarm
      Tulkarem or Tulkarm is a Palestinian city in the northern Samarian mountain range in the Tulkarm Governorate in the extreme northwestern West Bank adjacent to the Netanya and Haifa districts to the west, the Nablus and Jenin Districts to the east...
      
      
• Cities under PNA administration

Demography of the Palestinian territories

• Demographics of British Mandate Palestine (1918–1948)
• Demographics of the Palestinian territories
  Demographics of the Palestinian territories
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Palestinian territories, including ethnicity, education level, health of the populous, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  
  
  • Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
    Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
    The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is the statistical organization under the umbrella of the Palestinian Cabinet of the Palestinian National Authority....
    
    
• Demographics of the Palestinian people

Government and politics of the Palestinian territories

Main article: Government of the Palestinian territories and Politics of the Palestinian territories

• Form of government
  Form of government
  A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".-Empirical and conceptual problems:...
  
  : semi-presidential
  Semi-presidential system
  The semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a president and a prime minister are both active participants in the day-to-day administration of the state...
  
   parliamentary democracy

• Capital of Palestine:
  • Proclaimed capital: East Jerusalem
    East Jerusalem
    East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War...
    
     (also proclaimed by Israel)
  • de facto
    De facto
    De facto is a Latin expression that means "concerning fact." In law, it often means "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but not officially established." It is commonly used in contrast to de jure when referring to matters of law, governance, or...
    
     capital: Ramallah
    Ramallah
    Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
    
    
• Elections in the Palestinian territories
  • Elections of the Palestinian National Authority
    • Palestinian general election, 1996
    • Palestinian presidential election, 2005
      Palestinian presidential election, 2005
      The 2005 Palestinian presidential election — the first to be held since 1996 — took place on January 9, 2005 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Voters elected PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas as the new President of the Palestinian Authority to replace Yasser Arafat, who died on November 11,...
      
      
    • Palestinian municipal elections, 2005
    • Palestinian legislative election, 2006
      Palestinian legislative election, 2006
      On January 25, 2006, elections were held for the Palestinian Legislative Council , the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority . Notwithstanding the 2005 municipal elections and the January 9, 2005 presidential election, this was the first election to the PLC since 1996; subsequent...
      
      
    • Next Palestinian general election
      Next Palestinian general election
      A presidential and parliamentary election to the Palestinian National Authority is intended to be held within a year after May 4, 2011. The elections has been postponed because of intra-Palestinian political disputes between Fatah and Hamas following the Gaza...
      
      
  • PNA governments
    • PNA government of October 2002
      Palestinian government of October 2002
      The following table lists the ministers of the Palestinian National Authority Cabinet, their portfolio and party from June 2002 to October 2002.-See also:* Palestinian government of November 2003*Palestinian government- Sources and external links :...
      
      
    • PNA government of November 2003
      Palestinian government of November 2003
      The following table lists the ministers of the Palestinian National Authority Cabinet, their portfolio and party from November 2003 to February 2005.- Sources and external links :* Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre...
      
      
    • Palestinian government of March 2006
      Palestinian government of March 2006
      This is the list of members of the Palestinian National Authority cabinet that was formed by Ismail Haniya on 29 March 2006. This new government is formed of Hamas members and of independents associated with it.[1]...
      
      
    • PNA government of March 2007
      Palestinian government of March 2007
      The Palestinian national unity government formed on March 17, 2007 was a Palestinian cabinet headed by Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, founded following Saudi-sponsored negotiations in Mecca. On June 14 2007, Following the Hamas military takeover of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President...
      
      
    • PNA government of June 2007
      Palestinian government of June 2007
      The Palestinian cabinet that was formed on June 17, 2007 by Salam Fayyad is an emergency cabinet. While widely supported by the international community, it is viewed by some as illegitimate and unconstitutional...
      
      
• Political parties of the Palestinian territories
  • Political parties of the PNA
  • Political parties of the PLO
• Political scandals of the Palestinian territories
• Taxation in the Palestinian territories
  Taxation in the Palestinian territories
  Taxation in the Palestinian territories is a complex system which may involve payment to the Palestinian Authority and/or Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict...
  
  

Executive branch of the PLO

• Palestine Liberation Organization
  Palestine Liberation Organization
  The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed...
  
  
  • Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of Palestine
    President of the State of Palestine
    The President of the State of Palestine is the leader of the State of Palestine which was unilaterally declared in November 1988 by Palestinian Declaration of Independence of the Palestinian National Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
    
    : Mahmoud Abbas
    Mahmoud Abbas
    Mahmoud Abbas , also known by the kunya Abu Mazen , has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ticket.Elected to serve until 9 January 2009, he unilaterally...
    
    
  • Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Executive branch of the PNA

• Palestinian Authority
  • President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
    
    : Mahmoud Abbas
    Mahmoud Abbas
    Mahmoud Abbas , also known by the kunya Abu Mazen , has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ticket.Elected to serve until 9 January 2009, he unilaterally...
    
    
  • President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
    
    : Aziz Duwaik
  • Prime Minister
    Prime minister
    A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
    
    : Salam Fayyad
    Salam Fayyad
    Salam Fayyad is a Palestinian politician and Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority of the Palestinian National Authority. His first appointment, on 15 June 2007, which was justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", has not been confirmed by the...
    
    
  • Prime Minister
    Prime minister
    A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
    
    : Ismail Haniyeh
• NB. As a result of the Fatah-Hamas conflict
  Fatah-Hamas conflict
  The Fatah–Hamas conflict , also referred to as the Palestinian Civil War , and the Conflict of Brothers , i.e...
  
  , there is a dispute over the Presidency and Prime Ministership of the Palestinian Authority.
  • Ministries of the PNA
    • Education Ministry
      Education Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
      The Ministry of Education and Higher Education of the Palestinian National Authority is the branch of the Palestinian government in charge of managing the education in the Palestinian territories. It was established in 1994 after the formation of the Palestinian National Authority...
      
      
    • Foreign Affairs Ministry
      Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
      The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority is in charge of foreign relations. In June 2006, Israel attacked the ministry's office in Gaza City twice...
      
      
    • Finance Ministry
      Finance Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
      The Finance Minister of the Palestinian Authority is the head of the Palestinian National Authority branch that is in charge of finance. The minister deals with launching audits, collecting tax from Palestinian businesses and overseeing financial aid directed to the PNA...
      
      
    • Health Ministry
      Health Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
      The Palestinian Ministry of Health is led by the Hamas government and works to address health concerns and humanitarian needs of the population in the Gaza Strip.-External links:* *...
      
      
    • Interior Ministry
      Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
      The Interior Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority is the branch of the Palestinian National Authority cabinet in charge of the security and statistics of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is a sub-branch of the Interior Ministry that has the...
      
      
    • Planning Ministry
      Planning Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
      The Planning Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority is the branch of the Palestinian government, that is responsible for cross-sector planning, developing comprehensive development policies with the participation of all relevant Palestinian institutions and to coordinate sector planning in...
      
      

Legislative branches of the government of the Palestinian territories

• Palestinian Legislative Council
  Palestinian Legislative Council
  The Palestinian Legislative Council, the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza...
  
   (PNA
  Palestinian National Authority
  The Palestinian Authority is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
  
  , unicameral)
• Palestinian National Council
  Palestinian National Council
  The Palestinian National Council is the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization and elects its Executive Committee, which assumes leadership of the organization between its sessions. The Council normally meets every two years. Resolutions are passed by a simple majority with a...
  
   (PLO, unicameral, parliament-in-exile)

Judicial branch of the government of the Palestinian territories

• According to the Constitution of Palestine, all courts relating to the country shall be independent.

Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority

• Diplomatic missions in Palestine
• Holy See – Palestinian relations
• India-Palestine relations
• Iran-Palestine relations
  Iran-Palestine relations
  The Islamic Republic of Iran officially endorses the creation of a Palestinian state, regarding Israel as Palestine under occupation by the "Zionist regime"...
  
  
• Palestine-Russia relations
• Pakistan-Palestine relations
• Romania-Palestine relations

Palestine and the United Nations

• United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
• United Nations Palestine Commission
  United Nations Palestine Commission
  The United Nations Palestine Commission was created by United Nations Resolution 181. It was responsible for implementing the UN Partition Plan of Palestine and acting as the Provisional Government of Palestine...
  
  
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care, social services and emergency aid to 5 million Palestine refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and the Gaza...
  
   (UNRWA)
• United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine
• United Nations Special Committee on Palestine
  United Nations Special Committee on Palestine
  The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine was formed in May 1947 in response to a United Kingdom government request that the General Assembly "make recommendations under article 10 of the Charter, concerning the future government of Palestine"...
  
   (UNSCOP)
• United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights
  United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights
  The United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights is a part of the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.-History:...
  
   (UNDPR)
  • Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
    Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
    The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People was founded in 1975 by resolution 3376 of the United Nations General Assembly...
    
    
    • International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
      International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
      The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is a UN-organized observance. Events are held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, as well as at United Nations offices at Geneva and Vienna....
      
      
• Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations

International organization membership

Palestine is a member in a number of international organizations. In others, it enjoys affiliation in a lesser capacity or under another designation (such as PLO or Occupied Palestinian Territory). In the list below, if the membership is not full or not for the state of Palestine, the type and name of affiliation is denoted in parentheses.

• Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
  Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
  The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development is a Kuwait-based, pan-Arab development finance institution. All member-states of the Arab League are members of the AFESD. As of 2003, it held around USD 7.3 billion in assets....
  
   (AFESD)
• Arab League
  Arab League
  The Arab League , officially called the League of Arab States , is a regional organisation of Arab states in North and Northeast Africa, and Southwest Asia . It was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan , Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Yemen joined as a...
  
   (AL)
• Arab Monetary Fund
  Arab Monetary Fund
  The Arab Monetary Fund is a regional Arab organization, founded 1976, and operational from 1977. It is a working sub-organization of the Arab League.-Objectives:...
  
   (AMF)
• Council of Arab Economic Unity
  Council of Arab Economic Unity
  The Council of Arab Economic Unity was established by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen on 3 June 1957...
  
   (CAEU)
• FIFA
  FIFA
  The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...
  
   (Asian Football Confederation
  Asian Football Confederation
  The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...
  
   (AFC)
• Group of 77
  Group of 77
  The Group of 77 at the United Nations is a loose coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 founding members of the organization, but the organization has...
  
   (G77)
• International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
  
   (IOC)
• International Trade Union Confederation
  International Trade Union Confederation
  The International Trade Union Confederation is the world's largest trade union federation. It was formed on November 1, 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labour...
  
   (ITUC) (affiliate member)
• International Telecommunication Union
  International Telecommunication Union
  The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
  
   (ITU) (non-voting observer status)
• International Organization for Standardization
  International Organization for Standardization
  The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...
  
   (ISO) (representation for 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' equivalent to that of a state
  Countries in International Organization for Standardization
  Countries in International Organization for Standardization is a list and map of the 162 members in the International Organization for Standardization and their membership status within the organization.-List:-Map:-Notes:...
  
  )
• International Paralympic Committee
  International Paralympic Committee
  The International Paralympic Committee is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nine sports...
  
   (IPC)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is a humanitarian institution that is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement along with the ICRC and 186 distinct National Societies...
  
   (IFRC)
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  International Committee of the Red Cross
  The International Committee of the Red Cross is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and...
  
   (ICRC)
• Islamic Development Bank
  Islamic Development Bank
  The Islamic Development Bank is a multilateral development financing institution located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was founded by the first conference of Finance Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference , convened 23 Dhu'l Qa'dah 1393 AH.The bank officially began its activities on...
  
   (IDC)
• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
• Non-Aligned Movement
  Non-Aligned Movement
  The Non-Aligned Movement is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. As of 2011, the movement had 120 members and 17 observer countries...
  
   (NAM)
• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   (UN) (permanent observer
  United Nations General Assembly observers
  In addition to the current 193 member states, the United Nations welcomes many international organizations, entities, and non-member states as observers. Observer status is granted by a United Nations General Assembly resolution...
  
   with special privileges) (current representative:Riyad H. Mansour
  Riyad H. Mansour
  Riyad H. Mansour is a Palestinian-American diplomat and since 2005 has been the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations.Mansour was educated at the University of Akron and Youngstown State University. He was the Deputy Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations from 1983 to...
  
  )
  • Asian Group of the United Nations
  • United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
    The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia , headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, is one of the five regional commissions under the administrative direction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. UN-ESCWA promotes economic and social development of Western Asia...
    
     (UNESCWA)
• UNESCO
  UNESCO
  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
  
  
• Universal Postal Union
  Universal Postal Union
  The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
  
   (UPU) (special observer status)
• World Health Organization
  World Health Organization
  The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...
  
   (WHO) (observer status for the PLO) (see also: Palestine's application to the WHO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization
  World Intellectual Property Organization
  The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
  
   (WIPO)

International solidarity movements

• Palestinian solidarity organizations

Law and order in the Palestinian territories

• Capital punishment in the Palestinian territories
• Palestinian National Charter
• Crime in the Palestinian territories
• Human rights in the Palestinian territories
  • Human rights in the Palestinian National Authority
    Human rights in the Palestinian National Authority
    Human rights in the Palestinian National Authority refers to the human rights record of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza. Since Israel's implementation of its unilateral disengagement plan in 2005 and the evacuation of all Jewish settlements from Gaza Strip, the Palestinian...
    
    
    • Freedom of religion in the Palestinian territories
      Freedom of religion in the Palestinian territories
      Freedom of religion in the Palestinian territories refers to the freedom given individuals in the Palestinian territories to observe and practice the religion of their choice. The Palestinian territories include a population of approximately 4.2 million people, with representation of a number of...
      
      
    • LGBT rights in the Palestinian territories
      LGBT rights in the Palestinian territories
      Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights in the Palestinian territories are oftentimes spoke of in the geopolitical and cultural context of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
      
      
    • Polygamy in the Palestinian territories
      Polygamy in the Palestinian territories
      Marriage in the Palestinian territories deals with the marriage law and customs in the Palestinian territories, which consist of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip....
      
      
    • Human rights organizations in the Palestinian territories
      • Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
        Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
        The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is a nongovernmental organization based in the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Al Mezan was chartered "to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general and economic, social and cultural rights in particular, to provide...
        
        
      • Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
        Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
        The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is an independent Palestinian human rights organization based in Gaza City, founded and directed by Raji Sourani...
        
        
      • Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
        Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
        The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group is a diverse human rights group founded in December 1996 by a group of prominent Palestinians, including members of the Palestinian Legislative Council ....
        
        
  • Human rights record of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
    • Israeli settlements, Palestinians, and human rights
      Israeli settlements, Palestinians, and human rights
      Israeli settler violence refers both to acts of violence committed by a restricted number of Israeli settlers against Palestinians and Israeli security forces, predominantly in the West Bank. Although the vast majority of settlers are law abiding, there is a rise in violent acts by extremists in...
      
      
    • Israeli targeted killings
      Israeli targeted killings
      In the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Israel Defense Forces use the term "focused foiling" against those it considers proven to have intentions of performing a specific act of violence in the very near future or to be linked indirectly with several acts of violence , thus raising...
      
      
• Law enforcement in the Palestinian territories
  • Palestinian right of return
    Palestinian right of return
    The Palestinian right of return is a political position or principle asserting that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees and their descendants, have a right to return, and a right to the property they or their forebears left or which they were forced to leave in what is now Israel...
    
    

Military of the Palestinian territories

• Command
  • Commander-in-chief
    Commander-in-Chief
    A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
    
    : N/A
    • Ministry of Defence of the Palestinian territories: N/A
• Forces
  • Army of the Palestinian territories: N/A
  • Navy of the Palestinian territories: N/A
  • Air Force of the Palestinian territories: N/A
  • Special forces of the Palestinian territories:
• Military history of the Palestinian territories
  • Arab Legion
    Arab Legion
    The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan in the early part of the 20th century.-Creation:...
    
    
  • Arab Liberation Army
    Arab Liberation Army
    The Arab Liberation Army , also translated as Arab Salvation Army, was an army of volunteers from Arab countries led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji...
    
    
  • Army of the Holy War
    Army of the Holy War
    The Army of the Holy War or Holy War Army was a force of Palestinian Arab irregulars in the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war led by Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni and Hasan Salama. The force has been described as Husayni's "personal" army...
    
    
• Military ranks of the Palestinian territories: N/A

Paramilitary forces of the PNA

• Preventive Security Force

Irregular Palestinian forces

• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
  Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
  The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is a coalition of Palestinian nationalist militias in the West Bank. The group's name refers to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem...
  
   (armed wing affiliated with Fatah
  Fatah
  Fataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the left-wing of the spectrum; it is mainly nationalist, although not predominantly socialist. Its official goals are found...
  
  )
• al-Quds Brigades (armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad)
• Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
  Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
  The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist fundamentalist socio-political organisation Hamas. Created in 1992, under the direction of Yahya Ayyash, the primary objective of the group was to build a coherent military organisation to support the goals of...
  
   (armed wing of Hamas
  Hamas
  Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
  
  )
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
  The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command is a Palestinian nationalist organization, backed by Syria and Iran...
  
   (PFLP-GC) (armed wing of the PFLP
  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah...
  
  )
• Popular Resistance Committees
  Popular Resistance Committees
  The Popular Resistance Committees are a coalition of various armed Palestinian factions that oppose the conciliatory approach adopted by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah towards Israel...
  
  

• Palestinian domestic weapons production
  Palestinian domestic weapons production
  Even before the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, various militant Palestinian groups built domestically produced weapons for use against the Israel Defense Forces, including rockets to launch into Israel. Most of the effort has been in the production of unguided artillery rockets, though Hamas has...
  
  
  • Qassam rocket
    Qassam rocket
    The Qassam rocket is a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. Three models have been produced and used between 2001 and 2011....
    
    
  • al-Quds rocket
    Al-Quds rocket
    The al-Quds 101 Rocket is a homemade rocket made and used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for use in attacks against Israel. The al-Quds 101 is most likely similar to the Qassam rocket series used by Hamas....
    
    
    • Rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel
  • Yassin RPG
  • Al-Bana RPG
    Al-Bana
    The al-Bana rocket launcher is a weapon developed by Hamas's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades under the direction of Adnan al-Ghoul and Mohammed Deif. Made from raw material and equipment smuggled into the Gaza Strip using tunnels in Rafah, the al-Bana was the first example, during the Al-Aqsa...
    
    
  • Batar RPG
    Batar
    The Batar rocket launcher is a weapon developed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas during the Al-Aqsa intifada. The weapon was reportedly created and produced in clandestine workshops in the Gaza strip under the direction of Adnan al-Ghoul...
    
    

Israeli military and intelligence forces

• Central Command
  • West Bank Division
    West Bank Division
    The Israel Defense Forces Judea and Samaria Division is a regional division in the Israeli Central Command responsible for Israeli military activity in Judea and Samaria....
    
    
• Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
  Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
  The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories is a unit in the Israeli Ministry of Defense that engages in coordinating civilian issues between the Government of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces, international organizations, diplomats, and the Palestinian...
  
  
• Israel Defense Forces checkpoint
  Israel Defense Forces checkpoint
  A Israel Defense Forces checkpoint, usually called an Israeli checkpoint , is a barrier erected by the Israel Defense Forces with the stated aim of enhancing the security of Israel and Israeli settlements and preventing those who wish to do harm from crossing...
  
  
• Paratroopers Brigade
• Shabak

International civilian forces

• European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah
  European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah
  The European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah is, after the European Union Police Mission for the Gaza Strip , the EU's second Civilian Crisis Management Mission in the Gaza Strip. It is situated at the Rafah Border Crossing on the Palestinian-Egyptian border...
  
  
• European Union Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories
  European Union Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories
  The European Union Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories is a "three-year mission to reform and rebuild the police force in the West Bank and Gaza", which started on 1 January 2006, under the European Union's Common Security and Defence Policy...
  
  
• Temporary International Presence in Hebron
  Temporary International Presence in Hebron
  Temporary International Presence in Hebron or TIPH is civilian observer mission in the in the West Bank city of Hebron. Both the Israeli Government and Palestinian Authority called for its creation...
  
  

Local government in the Palestinian territories

• Mukataa
  Mukataa
  Mukataa is the name used to refer to the offices and administrative centers of the Palestinian National Authority.Mukataas were mostly built during the British Mandate as Tegart forts and were used both as British government centers and as dwellings for the British administrative staff. Some...
  
  

History of Palestine

Main article: History of Palestine

History of Palestine

The Southern Levant is the southern portion of the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean between Egypt and Mesopotamia . A narrow definition would take in roughly the same area as the modern states of Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan, while a wider definition would...

, Timeline of the history of Palestine, and Current events of Palestine

• Economic history of Palestine
  • Postage stamps and postal history of Palestine
• Military history of Palestine
  • Battle of Bitter Lakes (925 BCE)
    Battle of Bitter Lakes
    The battle of Bitter Lakes was a part of the military campaign of Shoshenq I to the Kingdom of Judah in 925 BC where he conquered many cities and towns including Jerusalem...
    
    
  • Siege of Gezer (c. 733 BCE)
    Siege of Gezer (c.733 BC)
    The Siege of Gezer refers to a successful siege of the city known as Gezer, 20 miles west of Jerusalem, depicted on a stone relief at the Assyrian royal palace in Nimrud, where the city is called 'Gazru'....
    
    
  • Siege of Gaza (332 BCE)
    Siege of Gaza
    During the Siege of Gaza, Alexander the Great, by utilizing the engines he had employed against Tyre, succeeded in reaching the walls. After three unsuccessful assaults, the stronghold was taken by storm....
    
    
  • Muslim conquest of Palestine (635 CE)
  • Arab conquest of Roman Syria (634 - 638)
  • Civil War in Palestine (793-796)
    Civil War in Palestine (793-796)
    The Civil War in Palestine occurred between two Arab tribal federations in Palestine, Mudhar and Yamani, between 793-796, under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate.-Background:The Abbasid Caliphate rose to power after the defeat of the Umayyads in 750...
    
    
  • Crusades (1095 - 1291)
    Crusades
    The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...
    
    
    • Ayyubid conquest of Palestine (1187)
  • Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar (1299)
    Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar
    The Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar, also known as the Third Battle of Homs, was a Mongol victory over the Mamluks in 1299.-Background:In 1260, Hulagu Khan had invaded the Middle East all the way to Palestine. Before he could follow up with an invasion of Egypt, he was called back to Mongolia. He left...
    
    
  • Siege of Jaffa (1799)
    Siege of Jaffa
    The Siege of Jaffa was fought from 3 to 7 March 1799 between France and the Ottoman Empire. The French were led by Napoleon Bonaparte, and they captured the city.-Course:...
    
    
  • Siege of Acre (1799)
    Siege of Acre (1799)
    The Siege of Acre of 1799 was an unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre and was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria.-Background:...
    
    
  • 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine
    1834 Arab revolt in Palestine
    The 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine was a reaction to conscription into the Egyptian army by the Wāli Muhammad Ali. Ali, as a part of a modernisation policy, began the conscription of ordinary subjects. Traditionally, soldiers were recruited from freebooters, loot-seekers, mercenaries, slaves or...
    
    
  • Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915-1918)
    Sinai and Palestine Campaign
    The Sinai and Palestine Campaigns took place in the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. A series of battles were fought between British Empire, German Empire and Ottoman Empire forces from 26 January 1915 to 31 October 1918, when the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Ottoman Empire and...
    
    
  • Battle of Megiddo (1918)
    Battle of Megiddo (1918)
    The Battle of Megiddo took place between 19 September and 1 October 1918, in what was then the northern part of Ottoman Palestine and parts of present-day Syria and Jordan...
    
    
  • 1920 Palestine riots
    1920 Palestine riots
    The 1920 Palestine riots, or Nabi Musa riots, took place in British Mandate of Palestine April 4–7, 1920 in and around the Old City of Jerusalem....
    
    
  • Jaffa riots
    Jaffa riots
    The Jaffa riots were a series of violent riots in Palestine on May 1–7, 1921, which began as a fight between two Jewish groups but developed into an attack by Arabs on Jews during which many were killed...
    
    
  • 1929 Palestine riots
    1929 Palestine riots
    The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Uprising, the 1929 Massacres, , or the Buraq Uprising , refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence...
    
    
  • 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
  • Bombing of Palestine in World War II
  • 1948 Palestine war
    1948 Palestine war
    The 1948 Palestine war refers to the events in the British Mandate of Palestine between the United Nations vote on the partition plan on November 30, 1947, to the end of the first Arab-Israeli war on July 20, 1949.The war is divided into two phases:...
    
    
  • 1948 Palestinian exodus
    1948 Palestinian exodus
    The 1948 Palestinian exodus , also known as the Nakba , occurred when approximately 711,000 to 725,000 Palestinian Arabs left, fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Civil War that preceded it. The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute...
    
    
  • 1949-1956 Palestinian exodus
    • Kfar Qasim massacre
  • 1967 War
  • 1967 Palestinian exodus
    1967 Palestinian exodus
    The 1967 Palestinian exodus refers to the flight of around 280,000 to 325,000 Palestinians out of the territories taken by Israel during and in the aftermath of the Six-Day War including the demolition of the Palestinian villages of Imwas, Yalo, and Bayt Nuba, Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem,...
    
    
  • Battle of Karameh
    Battle of Karameh
    The Battle of Karameh was fought on March 21, 1968 in the town of Karameh, Jordan, between the Israel Defense Forces and combined forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Jordanian Army...
    
    
  • Black September in Jordan
    Black September in Jordan
    September 1970 is known as the Black September in Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events." It was a month when Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan moved to quash the militancy of Palestinian organizations and restore his monarchy's rule over the country. The...
    
     (1970)
  • 1982 Lebanon War
    1982 Lebanon War
    The 1982 Lebanon War , , called Operation Peace for Galilee by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon...
    
    
    • Sabra and Shatila massacre
      Sabra and Shatila massacre
      The Sabra and Shatila massacre took place in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon between September 16 and September 18, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were massacred in the camps by Christian Lebanese Phalangists while the camp...
      
      
  • Second Intifada (2000-ongoing)
    • Civilian casualties in the Second Intifada
      Civilian casualties in the Second Intifada
      -Israeli non-combatant casualties:The following is a partial List of Israeli civilian casualties in the Second Intifada.-Palestinian non-combatant casualties:The following is a List of Palestinian civilian casualties in the Second Intifada...
      
      
    • Battle of Jenin
      Battle of Jenin
      The Battle of Jenin took place in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Israel Defense Forces entered the camp, and other areas under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, during the Second Intifada, as part of Operation Defensive Shield...
      
       (2002)
    • Battle of Nablus (2002)
    • Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
      Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
      The Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem lasted from April 2 to May 10, 2002 in Bethlehem in the West Bank. As part of Operation Defensive Shield, the Israel Defense Forces occupied Bethlehem and tried to capture wanted Palestinian militants. Dozens of them fled into the Church of the...
      
       (2002)
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
• Political history of Palestine
  • Covenant of Umar I
  • Jund Filastin
    Jund Filastin
    Jund Filastin was one of several sub-provinces of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphate province of Syria, organized soon after the Muslim conquest of Syria in the seventh century. According to al-Biladhuri, the main towns in the district at its capture by the Rashidun Caliphate, were Gaza, Sebastiya,...
    
    
  • Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
    Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
    The Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire was a political event that occurred after World War I. The huge conglomeration of territories and peoples formerly ruled by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was divided into several new nations.The partitioning was planned from the early days of the war,...
    
    
  • History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Palestine Jewish Colonization Association
    Palestine Jewish Colonization Association
    The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, commonly known by its Hebrew acronym PICA , was established in 1924 and played a major role in supporting the Yishuv in Palestine until its disbandment in 1957....
    
    
  • British Mandate Palestine
  • Arab Higher Committee
    Arab Higher Committee
    The Arab Higher Committee was the central political organ of the Arab community of Mandate Palestine. It was established on 25 April 1936, on the initiative of Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and comprised the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans under the mufti's...
    
    
  • All-Palestine Government
    All-Palestine Government
    The All-Palestine Government was established by the Arab League on 22 September 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Shortly thereafter, an Arab-Palestinian Congress named King Abdullah I of Transjordan, "King of Arab Palestine"...
    
    
  • Palestine Liberation Organization
    Palestine Liberation Organization
    The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed...
    
    
  • Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • First Intifada
    First Intifada
    The First Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The uprising began in the Jabalia refugee camp and quickly spread throughout Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem....
    
    
  • Second Intifada
  • Road map for peace
    Road map for peace
    The roadmap for peace or "road map" for peace is a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict proposed by a "quartet" of international entities: the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations. The principles of the plan, originally drafted by U.S. Foreign Service...
    
    

Palestinian culture

• Archaeology of the Palestinian territories
  • Gaza Museum of Archaeology
    Gaza Museum of Archaeology
    The Gaza Museum of Archaeology called in English the AlMath'af, Recreational Cultural House opened to the public in fall 2008 in Gaza. The Museum is a privately owned restaurant, hotel, and conference center, with a privately owned museum that houses antiquities discovered in the Gaza Strip from...
    
    
• Architecture of the Palestinian territories
  • Abd al-Hadi Palace
    Abd al-Hadi Palace
    The Abd al-Hadi Palace or Qasr Abd al-Hadi is a large palace located in the Qaryun quarter of the Old City of Nablus. It was built in the 19th century as a residence for the dominant Abd al-Hadi clan of the District of Nablus...
    
    
  • Hisham's Palace
    Hisham's Palace
    Hisham's Palace is the archaeological remains of an Umayyad winter palace located five km north of Jericho in the West Bank.-Construction and layout:...
    
    
  • Jacir Palace
    Jacir Palace
    Jacir Palace or Qasr Jacir is the largest hotel in Bethlehem in the central West Bank. The building's original design was based on typical Palestinian architecture and the characteristics of an Arab household. Jacir Palace has three floors, each spanning 800 square meters...
    
    
  • Khan al-Tujjar (Nablus)
    Khan al-Tujjar (Nablus)
    Khan al-Tujjar is a 15th century khan in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Situated the Old City, it has been noted as the finest khan in the region.-History:...
    
    
  • Khirbat al-Minya
    Khirbat al-Minya
    Khirbat al-Minya is an Umayyad-built palace in the eastern Galilee, Israel, located about west of the northern end of the Lake Tiberias...
    
    
  • Manara Clock Tower
    Manara Clock Tower
    The Manara Clock Tower is a clock tower located in the middle of the central square in the Old City of Nablus next to the Nasr Mosque in the Palestinian territories....
    
    
  • Qasr al-Basha
    Qasr al-Basha
    Qasr al-Basha was formerly a large palace, and now a two-floored girl's school and museum, situated in the Old City of Gaza...
    
    
• Costume of the Palestinian territories
  Palestinian costumes
  Palestinian costumes are the traditional clothing worn by Palestinians. Foreign travelers to Palestine in the 19th and early 20th centuries often commented on the rich variety of the costumes worn, particularly by the fellaheen or village women...
  
  
• Cuisine of the Palestinian territories
• Ethnic minorities in the Palestinian territories
• Festivals of the Palestinian territories
  • Al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture
  • Boston Palestine Film Festival
    Boston Palestine Film Festival
    The Boston Palestine Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Boston, Massachusetts which shows the Palestinian narrative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Started in 2007, the 2008 version highlighted Palestinian expulsion, also known as al-Nakba, while the opening night film was ...
    
    
  • Chicago Palestine Film Festival
    Chicago Palestine Film Festival
    The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is an annual film festival begun in 2002 in Chicago and is one of the most important venues in the US for the screening of Palestinian cinema. It accepts works in a variety of genres — documentaries, dramas, comedies — in both long and short formats...
    
    
  • Feast of Saint George
    Feast of Saint George
    The Feast of Saint George is a Palestinian holiday commemorating Saint George . The feast occurs annually on 5 May, and although it is originally a local Christian holiday, both Palestinian Christians and Muslims participate...
    
    
  • Khader Grape Festival
    Khader Grape Festival
    The Khader Grape Festival is a grape festival held annually on September in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem. It was established by the town municipality with the purpose to promote the town's primary crop — the grape. The festival is characterized by exhibitions of grapes and...
    
    
  • Thursday of the Dead
    Thursday of the Dead
    Thursday of the Dead , also known as Thursday of the Secrets or Thursday of the Eggs is a feast day shared by Christians and Muslims in the Levant. It falls sometime between the Easter Sundays of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions. It is a day on which the souls of the dead are...
    
    
  • Palestine Festival of Literature
    Palestine Festival of Literature
    PalFest is an annual event that aims to bring a cultural festival of international standard to audiences in Palestine to assert "the power of culture over the culture of power." In recognition of how restricted movement is for Palestinians the Festival travels throughout Palestine, staging events...
    
    
  • Nabi Musa
    Nabi Musa
    Nabi Musa is the name of a site in the Judean desert that popular Palestinian folklore associates with Moses. It is also the name of a seven-day long religious festival that was celebrated annually by Palestinian Muslims, beginning on the Friday before Good Friday in the old Orthodox Greek calendar...
    
     (pre-1948)
  • Nabi Rubin
    Nabi Rubin
    Al-Nabi Rubin was a Palestinian village in central Palestine, located west of Ramla, just northeast of Yibna and south of Jaffa. The village was situated on the southern banks of Wadi al-Sarar, also known as Sorek Stream, at an elevation of below sea level. Nabi Rubin is named after a shrine in...
    
     (pre-1948)
  • Al-Nabi Yusha'
    Al-Nabi Yusha'
    -History:During the late eighteenth century, a family known as al-GhuI established the shrine for Nabi Yusha’ , which included a mosque and a building for visitors, as an act of devotion...
    
     (pre-1948)
• Humor in Palestine
• Languages of the Palestinian territories
  Palestinian Arabic
  Palestinian Arabic is a Levantine Arabic dialect subgroup spoken by Palestinians and the majority of Arab-Israelis. Rural varieties of this dialect exhibit several distinctive features; particularly the pronunciation of qaf as kaf, which distinguish them from other Arabic varieties...
  
  
• Media in the Palestinian territories
  • Print media of the Palestinian territories
    • Al-Ayyam
    • Al-Hadaf
      Al-Hadaf
      Al-Hadaf , is a Palestinian weekly political newspaper.It was founded in Beirut in 1969 by Ghassan Kanafani as the political mouthpiece of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , espousing a Marxist-Leninist version of pan-Arab Palestinian nationalism. In 1972, Kanafani was killed by a...
      
      
    • Electronic Intifada
      Electronic Intifada
      The Electronic Intifada is a not-for-profit, independent online publication which covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective, "aimed at combating the pro-Israeli, pro-American spin" its editors believe exists in mainstream media accounts.-History:EI was founded by Ali...
      
      
    • Gaza Weekly Newspaper
      Gaza Weekly Newspaper
      Gaza Weekly Newspaper is a weekly newspaper established in 1950, and published from the city of Gaza. The first issue was on 6 July 1951. The newspaper is printed in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City. It has been dealing with local issues and is distributed in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt....
      
      
    • Al-Hayat al-Jadida
      Al-Hayat al-Jadida
      Al-Hayat al-Jadida , is an official daily newspaper of the Palestinian National Authority.- External links :*...
      
      
    • Al-Hurriya
      Al-Hurriya (DFLP)
      Al-Hurriya , variously transcribed as al-Hourriya, al-Hurriyeh, etc) is a Palestinian political newspaper affiliated with the Marxist-Leninist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
      
      
    • International Middle East Media Center
      International Middle East Media Center
      The International Middle East Media Center is an independent news organisation run by Palestinians living in the Palestinian territories, working together with international journalists, who report on events in both Israel and the Palestinian territories...
      
      
    • Al-Karmil
      Al-Karmil (newspaper)
      Al-Karmil was a weekly Arabic language newspaper founded toward the end of Ottoman imperial rule in Palestine. Named for Mount Carmel in the Haifa district, the first issue was published in December 1908, with the stated purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization".The owner, editor and key writer...
      
      
    • Palestine News Network
      Palestine News Network
      The Palestine News Network is an Arabic language media network run by Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories . It operates under the charitable organization the Holy Land Trust and is based in Bethlehem in the West Bank. It reports on all Palestine related news both abroad and domestic...
      
      
    • Palestine Times
      Palestine Times
      Palestine Times was the only English language daily Palestinian newspaper. It was a family-owned business with its main office in Ramallah. It was initially distributed all over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. On March 13, 2007 the paper signed a contract with BAR, an Israeli newspaper...
      
      
    • Al-Quds
      Al-Quds (newspaper)
      Al-Quds is a Palestinian Arabic language daily newspaper, based in Jerusalem. It is published in broadsheet format. It is the largest circulation daily newspaper in the Palestinian territories. It was founded in 1951 by Mahmoud Abu-Zalaf, who served as its editor-in-chief until his death in 2005...
      
      
    • Al-Quds Al-Arabi
      Al-Quds Al-Arabi
      Al-Quds Al-Arabi , is an independent pan-Arab daily newspaper published in London since 1989. The paper is owned by Palestinian expatriates, and edited by Abd al-Bari Atwan who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza Strip in 1950. Its motto is . Its circulation is estimated to be...
      
      
    • Sawt al-Jamahir
      Sawt al-Jamahir
      Sawt al-Jamahir , was the monthly newspaper published by the Iraqi-controlled Arab Liberation Front , a small, left-wing radical faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization . It was edited by the ALF's Secretary-General Rakad Salem, and is believed to have been funded by the Iraqi...
      
      
  • Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
    Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation was established on 1 July 1994 and is within the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority. It has a subsidiary radio station known as the Voice Of Palestine and a satellite channel known as Palestinian Satellite Channel. Palestine TV first began...
    
    
  • Radio in Palestine
    • Near East Broadcasting Station
      Near East Broadcasting Station
      The Near East Broadcasting Station started broadcasting in Arabic in 1941/1942 from Jaffa, Mandate of Palestine. It was fully financed and run by the British government...
      
      
    • RAM FM (West Bank)
      RAM FM (West Bank)
      RAM FM was an independent English-speaking radio station broadcasting from Ramallah, Palestine.-History:Radio 702's success in Johannesburg, South Africa – in PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING's stable of four radio stations – led Issie Kirsh, the founder and first chairperson, to seek to emulate this winning...
      
      
    • Voice of Palestine
      Voice of Palestine
      The Voice of Palestine is a radio station based in Ramallah. It is a subsidiary of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, under the control of the Palestinian Authority. The station was originally known as the Voice of Palestinian Revolution before the 1993 Oslo Accords, and was launched on 17...
      
      
  • Television in the Palestinian territories
    • Al Aqsa TV
    • Palestinian Satellite Channel
      Palestinian Satellite Channel
      Palestine Satellite Channel and its companion radio station, Voice of Palestine are free-to-air general entertainment channels in Arabic...
      
      
• National symbols of Palestine
  • Coat of arms of Palestine
  • Palestinian Flag
    Palestinian flag
    The Palestinian flag is based on the Flag of the Arab Revolt, and is used to represent the Palestinian people , and the Palestinian Authority.-Description:...
    
    
    • Flag of the British Mandate of Palestine
      Flag of the British Mandate of Palestine
      During the British Mandate for Palestine from 1920 until 1948, the de facto flag was the Union Flag or Union Jack of the United Kingdom, but several localized flags existed for Mandate government departments and government officials...
      
      
  • Keffiyeh
    Keffiyeh
    The keffiyeh/kufiya , also known as a ghutrah , ' , mashadah , shemagh or in Persian chafiye , Kurdish cemedanî and Turkish puşi, is a traditional Arab headdress fashioned from a square, usually cotton, scarf. It is typically worn by Arab men, as well as some Kurds...
    
    
  • National anthem of Palestine
    Palestinian National Anthem
    The Palestinian national anthem , is the national anthem of the Palestinian National Authority. It was adopted by the Palestinian National Council in 1996, in accordance with Article 31 of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence from 1988...
    
    
  • Palestinian nationalism
    Palestinian nationalism
    Palestinian nationalism is the national movement of the Palestinian people. It has roots in Pan-Arabism and other movements rejecting colonialism and calling for national independence. More recently, Palestinian Nationalism is expressed through the Israeli–Palestinian conflict...
    
    
  • Sumud
    Sumud
    Sumud meaning "steadfastness" or "steadfast perseverance" is an ideological theme and political strategy that first emerged among the Palestinian people through the experience of the dialectic of oppression and resistance in the wake of the Six-day war...
    
    
• Palestinians
  • Arab citizens of Israel
    Arab citizens of Israel
    Arab citizens of Israel refers to citizens of Israel who are not Jewish, and whose cultural and linguistic heritage or ethnic identity is Arab....
    
    
  • Internally displaced Palestinians
    Internally displaced Palestinians
    A present absentee is a Palestinian who fled or was expelled from his home in Palestine by Jewish or Israeli forces, before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, but who remained within the area that became the state of Israel. Present absentees are also referred to as internally displaced...
    
    
  • Negev Bedouins
    Negev Bedouins
    The Negev Bedouin are traditionally pastoral semi-nomadic Arab tribes indigenous to the Negev region in Israel, who hold close ties to the Bedouin of the Sinai Peninsula. The move away from their traditional lifestyle in modern times has led to sedentarization.Estimated to number some 160,000,...
    
    
  • Palestinian diaspora
    Palestinian diaspora
    Palestinian diaspora is a term used to describe Palestinians living outside of historic Palestine - an area today known as Israel and the Palestinian territories or the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip...
    
    
  • Palestinian prisoners in Israel
  • Palestinian refugees
  • Prominent Palestinians
• Prostitution in the Palestinian territories
  Prostitution in the Palestinian territories
  Prostitution in the Palestinian territories is illegal. Ramallah is one of the few outlets for prostitution in the Palestinian territories as premarital sex is seen as taboo in the territories....
  
  
• National holidays of the Palestinian territories
  • Land Day
    Land Day
    Land Day , March 30, is an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976. In response to the Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of land for "security and settlement purposes", a general strike and marches were organized...
    
    
  • Nakba Day
    Nakba Day
    Nakba Day is generally commemorated on May 15, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israeli independence day...
    
    
  • Naksa Day
    Naksa Day
    Naksa Day is the annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the displacement that accompanied Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War...
    
    
• Records of the Palestinian territories
• Religion in the Palestinian territories
  • Christianity in the Palestinian territories
    Palestinian Christians
    Palestinian Christians are Arabic-speaking Christians descended from the people of the geographical area of Palestine. Within Palestine, there are churches and believers from many Christian denominations, including Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic , Protestant, and others...
    
    
    • Eastern Orthodox
      • Greek Orthodox Church
        Greek Orthodox Church
        The Greek Orthodox Church is the body of several churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity sharing a common cultural tradition whose liturgy is also traditionally conducted in Koine Greek, the original language of the New Testament...
        
        
        • Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre
          Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre
          The Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, or The Holy Community of the All-Holy Sepulchre, is the Orthodox monastic fraternity that for centuries has guarded and protected the Christian Holy places in the Holy Land...
          
          
          • Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
            Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
            The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem is the head bishop of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, ranking fourth of nine Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 2005, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem has been Theophilos III...
            
            
            • Arab Orthodox
              Arab Orthodox
              The Arab Orthodox are Arab Greek Orthodox Christian communities which have existed in Greater Syria since the early years of Christianity. During the Palestine Mandate they were prominent in many of the major cities including Jaffa, Nazareth, Haifa and Jerusalem and also formed the majority of...
              
              
              • Church of the Nativity
                Church of the Nativity
                The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth, and thus it is considered sacred by Christians...
                
                
              • Church of Saint Porphyrius
                Church of Saint Porphyrius
                The Church of Saint Porphyrius is the Orthodox Christian church of Gaza, and the oldest active church in the city...
                
                
              • Monastery of Saint George, al-Khader
                Monastery of Saint George, al-Khader
                The Monastery of Saint George is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the Palestinian town of al-Khader in the central West Bank. The modern church was built in 1912 but the remains of the chapel date back to the 16th century. The edifice has an Orthodox Christian interior, and the dome contains a...
                
                
              • Monastery of the Temptation
                Monastery of the Temptation
                The Monastery of the Temptation is an Orthodox Christian monastery located in the West Bank, along a cliff overlooking the city of Jericho and the Jordan Valley. It is built upon the summit of the Mount of Temptation, rising 350 meters above sea level...
                
                
    • Oriental Orthodoxy
      Oriental Orthodoxy
      Oriental Orthodoxy is the faith of those Eastern Christian Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils — the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the First Council of Ephesus. They rejected the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon...
      
      
      • Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
    • Latin Rite
      • Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
        Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
        The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is the title possessed by the Latin Rite Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem. The Archdiocese of Jerusalem has jurisdiction for all Latin Rite Catholics in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan and Cyprus...
        
        
        • Church of Saint Lazarus
    • Eastern Catholic Churches
      • Melkite Greek Catholic Church
        Melkite Greek Catholic Church
        The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, Syria, of...
        
        
    • Anglican Communion
      Anglican Communion
      The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches in full communion with the Church of England and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury...
      
      
      • Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
        Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
        The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is a province of the Anglican Communion stretching from Iran in the east to Algeria in the west, and Cyprus in the north to Somalia in the south. It is the largest and the most diverse Anglican province. The church is headed by a President...
        
        
        • Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem
          Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem
          The Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem was an episcopal see founded in Jerusalem in the nineteenth century by joint agreement of the Anglican Church of England and the united Evangelical Church in Prussia.-Background:...
          
          
          • Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem
            Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem
            The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem is the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem, which is a part of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and The Middle East, and based at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem. The Diocese of Jerusalem covers Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon...
            
            
    • Protestantism
      Protestantism
      Protestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...
      
      
      • Presbyterianism
        Presbyterianism
        Presbyterianism refers to a number of Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, which are organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures,...
        
        
        • Sabeel
          Sabeel
          Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center is a Christian liberation theology organization based in Jerusalem. It was founded by Palestinian Anglican priest, Rev. Naim Ateek, the former Canon of St...
          
          
        • Church of Scotland
          Church of Scotland
          The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....
          
          
          • St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem
            St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem
            St Andrew’s Church, Jerusalem, was built as a memorial to the Scottish soldiers who were killed fighting the Turkish Army during World War I, bringing to an end Ottoman rule over Palestine. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland.-Foundation:...
            
            
    • Church of the Holy Sepulcher
  • Druzism in the Palestinian territories
    Druze
    The Druze are an esoteric, monotheistic religious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, which emerged during the 11th century from Ismailism. The Druze have an eclectic set of beliefs that incorporate several elements from Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism...
    
    
  • Islam in the Palestinian territories
    • Waqf
      Waqf
      A waqf also spelled wakf formally known as wakf-alal-aulad is an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law, typically denoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes. The donated assets are held by a charitable trust...
      
      
      • Jerusalem Islamic Waqf
        Jerusalem Islamic Waqf
        The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf is an Islamic trust best known for controlling and managing the current Islamic edifices on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Waqf has governed access to the geographic region since the Muslim reconquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187...
        
        
        • Haram al-Sharif
          Temple Mount
          The Temple Mount, known in Hebrew as , and in Arabic as the Haram Ash-Sharif , is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a religious site for thousands of years...
          
          
          • Al-Aqsa Mosque
            Al-Aqsa Mosque
            Al-Aqsa Mosque also known as al-Aqsa, is the third holiest site in Sunni Islam and is located in the Old City of Jerusalem...
            
            
          • Dome of the Rock
            Dome of the Rock
            The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. The structure has been refurbished many times since its initial completion in 691 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik...
            
            
            • Dome of the Chain
              Dome of the Chain
              Dome of the Chain is a free-standing dome located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem. One of the oldest structures on the Haram ash-Sharif , it is not a mosque or shrine, but is used as a prayer house...
              
              
          • Excavations at the Temple Mount
            Excavations at the Temple Mount
            Several excavations at the Temple Mount have taken place. The first archaeological excavations at the site was by the British Royal Engineers in the 1870s....
            
            
        • Imaret
          Imaret
          An imaret is one of a few names used to identify the Ottoman soup kitchens built throughout the Ottoman Empire from the 14th into the 19th century. These public kitchens were often part of a larger complex known as a Waqf, which could include hospices, mosques, caravanserais and colleges...
          
          
          • Hasseki Sultan Imaret
            Hasseki Sultan Imaret
            Hasseki Sultan Imaret was an Ottoman public soup kitchen established in Jerusalem to feed the poor during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent...
            
            
      • Moroccan Quarter
        Moroccan Quarter
        The Moroccan Quarter or Mughrabi Quarter was an 800-year old neighborhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, bordering on the western wall of the Temple Mount on the east , the Old City walls on the south , the Jewish Quarter to the west, and the Muslim Quarter to...
        
        
      • Sabil Abu Nabbut
        Sabil Abu Nabbut
        Sabil Abu Nabbut also known as Tabitha's Well is a public fountain in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, constructed during the Ottoman era in Palestine. Its main purpose was to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem....
        
        
      • List of mosques in Israel and the Palestinian territories
        • Great Mosque of Gaza
          Great Mosque of Gaza
          The Great Mosque of Gaza also known as the Great Omari Mosque is the largest and oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip, located in Gaza's old city....
          
          
        • Great Mosque of Nablus
          Great Mosque of Nablus
          Great Mosque of Nablus is the oldest and largest mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus. It was originally built as a Christian church. The mosque is located at the intersection of the main streets of Nablus' Old City on its eastern edge...
          
          
        • Al-Hamadiyya Mosque
          Al-Hamadiyya Mosque
          Al-Hamadiyya Mosque is the largest mosque in the Palestinian town of al-Khader, west of Bethlehem and serves the majority of the town's residents...
          
          
        • Ibn Marwan Mosque
          Ibn Marwan Mosque
          The Ibn Marwan Mosque is a Mamluk-era mosque in Gaza in the midst of a cemetery in the al-Tuffah neighborhood, relatively isolated from the rest of the city. Inside is the tomb of a holy man named Sheikh Ali ibn Marwan who belonged to the Hasani family. The Hasani family came from Morocco and...
          
          
        • Ibn Uthman Mosque
          Ibn Uthman Mosque
          The Ibn Uthman Mosque is one of the oldest and largest mosques in Gaza located in the Shuja'iyya district. It is noted for its architectural patterns. It was established at different stages during the Mamluk period of rule in the city, and eventually finished in the late 14th-century by Ahmed ibn...
          
          
        • Al-Khadra Mosque
          Al-Khadra Mosque
          Al-Khadra Mosque also known as Hizn Sidna Yaq'ub Mosque is a mosque situated on the lower slopes of Mount Gerizim in the southwestern quarter of the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank...
          
          
        • Mahmoudiya Mosque
          Mahmoudiya Mosque
          The Mahmoudiya Mosque is the largest and most significant mosque in Jaffa, now part of the larger city of Tel Aviv. It is composed of a complex of buildings arranged around two large courtyards and a third, smaller, courtyard...
          
          
        • Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem)
          Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem)
          The Mosque of Omar is the oldest and only mosque in the old city of Bethlehem, located in Manger Square, near the Church of the Nativity.-History:The mosque is named after Omar ibn al-Khattab , the second Rashidun Muslim Caliph...
          
          
        • An-Nasr Mosque
          An-Nasr Mosque
          An-Nasr Mosque is a mosque located in the Palestinian city of Nablus. It is situated in the central square of the Old City and is donned as the "symbol of Nablus"...
          
          
        • Sayed al-Hashim Mosque
        • Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque
          Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque
          The Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque is the largest mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanina, located northeast of Jerusalem. It is named after a Muslim who lived in the town and worked as collector of olive products. An engraving in a stone in front of the mosque reads, "this mosque was built...
          
          
        • Umm al-Naser Mosque
          Umm al-Naser Mosque
          Umm al-Naser Mosque or Beit Hanoun Mosque is the oldest mosque in the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, located in the center of the city.-History:...
          
          
        • Welayat Mosque
          Welayat Mosque
          Welayat Mosque or Kateb al-Welaya Mosque is a small historic mosque located along Omar Mukhtar Street in Gaza City in the Zaytoun Quarter of the old city. The mosque was built by the Mamluks in 1432, however, the structure could date as far back as 1344...
          
          
    • Supreme Muslim Council
      Supreme Muslim Council
      The Supreme Muslim Council was the highest body in charge of Muslim community affairs in Mandate Palestine under British control. It was established to create an advisory body composed of Muslims and Christians with whom the High Commissioner could consult...
      
      
  • Sites holy to Christians, Jews, and Muslims
    • Cave of the Patriarchs
      Cave of the Patriarchs
      The Cave of the Patriarchs or the Cave of Machpelah , is known by Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham or Ibrahimi Mosque ....
      
       (Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi)
    • Joseph's Tomb
      Joseph's Tomb
      Joseph's Tomb is a funerary monument located at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 325 yards northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus, near Tell Balāṭa, the site of biblical Shechem...
      
      
    • Jacob's Well
      Jacob's Well
      Jacob's Well is a deep well hewn of solid rock that has been associated in religious tradition with Jacob for roughly two millennia...
      
       (also holy to Samaritans)
    • Rachel's Tomb
      Rachel's Tomb
      Rachel's Tomb , also known as the Dome of Rachel, , is an ancient structure believed to be the burial place of the biblical matriarch Rachel. It is located on the outskirts of Bethlehem, a Palestinian city just south of Jerusalem, in the West Bank...
      
       (Bilal ibn Rabah)
    • Tomb of Samuel
      Tomb of Samuel
      The Tomb of Samuel, , is the traditional burial site of the biblical Hebrew prophet Samuel, atop a steep hill at an elevation of 908 meters above sea level. It is situated to the north of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot. On the site is a building containing a mosque built in the 18th century...
      
       (Nabi Samwil
      Nabi Samwil
      An-Nabi Samwil also al-Nabi Samuil is a Palestinian village of nearly 220 inhabitants in the West Bank, within the Jerusalem Governorate, located four kilometers north of Jerusalem...
      
      )
  • Judaism in Palestine
    • Palestinian synagogues
      Palestinian synagogues
      Palestinian synagogues refers to synagogues which existed in ancient Palestine from antiquity up till the beginning of the Middle Ages.Most date from the Roman and Byzantine periods, from the third to seventh centuries, and relatively few synagogues have been found in from before the destruction of...
      
      
    • Ancient Synagogue of Gaza
      Ancient Synagogue of Gaza
      The ancient synagogue of Gaza was built in 508 CE during the Byzantine period and was discovered in 1965. It was located in the ancient port city of Gaza, then known as "Maiumas", currently the Rimal district of Gaza City.-Discovery:...
      
      
  • Samaritans in Palestine

Art in the Palestinian territories

• Art in the Palestinian territories
  • Museums in the Palestinian territories
    • Badd Giacaman Museum
      Badd Giacaman Museum
      The Badd Giacaman Museum is located in the center of Bethlehem, near the Church of the Nativity. The building in which the museum was built dates from the 18th–19th century...
      
      
    • Baituna al-Talhami Museum
      Baituna al-Talhami Museum
      Baituna al-Talhami Museum or the Bethlehem Folklore Museum is one of the largest museums in the Palestinian territories. It is located in Bethlehem, on Star Street....
      
      
• Cinema of the Palestinian territories
  • Cinema Jenin
    Cinema Jenin
    Cinema Jenin is a movie theater in the Palestinian city of Jenin, located in the West Bank.The new building features plush seating that can accommodating over 300 people, an outdoor cafe, art gallery space, a children's park and playground, and a library that is sponsored by the German...
    
    
• Handicrafts of the Palestinian territories
• Literature of the Palestinian territories
• Music of the Palestinian territories
  • Ataaba
    Ataaba
    The ataaba is a traditional Arabic musical form sung at weddings or festivals, and sometimes also by people at work. Popular in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan, it was originally a Bedouin genre, improvised by a solo poet-singer accompanying himself on the rababa...
    
    
  • The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music
    The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music
    The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music is a Palestinian music conservatory with branches in Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. In total, there are more than 500 students. It was established in 1993 as The National Conservatory of Music, with its first branch, in Ramallah, opening in...
    
    
  • Palestinian hip hop
    Palestinian hip hop
    Palestinian hip hop allegedly started in 1998 with Tamer Nafar's group DAM. These Palestinian youth forged the new Palestinian musical sub-genre, which blends Arabic melodies and hip hop beats...
    
    
• Theatre in the Palestinian territories
  • Al-Kasaba Theatre
    Al-Kasaba Theatre
    Al-Kasaba Theatre is a cinema in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. It was established in 1970 for playwrights and eventually began presenting films. Al-Kasaba is the only official multipurpose cinema in the Palestinian territories.-History:...
    
    
  • Palestinian National Theatre
    Palestinian National Theatre
    The Palestinian National Theatre is a Palestinian-owned theatre in Jerusalem's American Colony neighbourhood, near New Orient House. The theatre has been serving to actively encourage and promote Palestinian artistic and cultural activities and collaborates with the Palestinian ministry of...
    
    

Sports and leisure in the Palestinian territories

• Football in the Palestinian territories
  • Palestine national football team
    Palestine national football team
    The Palestine national football team is the national team of the Palestinian Football Association, representing the Palestinian National Authority.The Palestine Football Federation was founded in 1952...
    
    
  • Palestinian Football Federation
    Palestinian Football Federation
    The Palestinian Football Association is the governing body for football in the Palestinian Authority, and for the Palestine national football team. It was also the original name for what is now the Israel Football Association....
    
    
    • Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium
      Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium
      Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium is an association football stadium in Al-Ram, West Bank. It is the home stadium of the Palestine national football team. It is named for Faisal Husseini, a Palestinian politician who died in 2001...
      
      
    • Palestine Stadium
      Palestine Stadium
      Palestine Stadium is located in Gaza City on the Gaza Strip. It is the national stadium and the home of Palestine national football team. The stadium's capacity is around 10,000. It was bombed by Israel on April 1, 2006, directly on the centre spot, and is currently unusable due to the crater...
      
      
• Hammam
  Hammam
  A Turkish bath is the Turkish variant of a steam bath, sauna or Russian Bath, distinguished by a focus on water, as distinct from ambient steam....
  
  s (bathhouses)
  • Hamam al-Sammara
    Hamam al-Sammara
    Hamam al-Sammara is the only active Turkish bath remaining in Gaza, located in the Zeitoun Quarter of the Old City. It is situated below street level...
    
    
• Palestine Olympic Committee
  Palestine Olympic Committee
  The Palestine Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee of Palestine. Palestine has been recognized as a member of the Olympic Council of Asia since 1986, and the International Olympic Committee since 1995.-History:...
  
  
  • Palestine at the Olympics
    Palestine at the Olympics
    The partially-recognised State of Palestine is represented on the International Olympic Committee by the Palestine Olympic Committee, which has sent teams to compete at each Summer Olympics since 1996 under the IOC country code PLE. Palestine has been recognized as a member of the Olympic Council...
    
    
• Palestine at the Paralympics
  Palestine at the Paralympics
  The Palestinian Territories compete as Palestine at the Paralympic Games. Their first participation came at the Sydney Paralympics in 2000, where Husam Azzam won bronze in the shot put event. Palestinian athletes have won three Paralympic medals to date: a silver and two bronze.-List of medalists:...
  
  
• Palestinian Scout Association
  Palestinian Scout Association
  The Scout movement started in Palestine in 1912. The Palestinian Scout Association was recognized by the World Scout Bureau in 1945, however recognition was withdrawn in 1949. Official recognition was restored by the World Scout Conference in 1996, and the Palestinian Scout Association serves...
  
  
• Girl Guides of Palestine
  Girl Guides of Palestine
  The Girl Guides of Palestine is the national Guiding organization of the Palestinian National Authority. As of 2005, the association was granted the official status of "Working towards WAGGGS membership" by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts acknowledging the development of the...
  
  

Economy and infrastructure of the Palestinian territories

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 134th (one hundred and thirty fourth)

• Agriculture in the Palestinian territories
• Banking in the Palestinian territories
  • Arab Bank
    Arab Bank
    Arab Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East. Established in Jerusalem in Palestine in 1930 as a small bank, it has evolved into a group with the largest worldwide Arab network with over 500 branches in 30 countries on five continents, participating in financial markets...
    
    
  • National Bank of Palestine
• Communications in the Palestinian territories
  Communications in the Palestinian territories
  The telecom infrastructure in the Palestinian territories is growing at a very rapid pace and continually being updated and expanded. Communications in the Palestinian territories occur across many media, including telephone, radio, television, and internet....
  
  
  • Internet in the Palestinian territories
  • Telephone numbers in the Palestinian territories
• Companies of the Palestinian territories
  • G.ho.st
    G.ho.st
    G.ho.st was the trading name of Ghost Inc. and the service name and URL of the company's hosted computer operating system or WebOS service. Its name is an acronym of Global Hosted Operating SysTem. The old URL G.ho.st is a domain hack using the São Tomé and Príncipe .st country extension and more...
    
    
  • Palestinian Airlines
    Palestinian Airlines
    Palestinian Airlines is an airline based in Egypt that is wholly owned by the Palestinian Authority. Up until it stopped operations in 2001, the airline had scheduled international services from El Arish, Egypt to Amman, Jordan and pilgrim charter services to Jeddah...
    
    
  • Paltel
    Paltel
    Paltel Group or Palestinian Telecommunication Group is the largest private-sector company in the Palestinian territories, employing almost 2,000 people...
    
    
  • Taybeh Brewery
    Taybeh Brewery
    thumb|right|Taybeh Beer logoTaybeh Brewery is a Palestinian brewery founded in 1994. The brewery is located in the West Bank village of Taybeh, 35 kilometers north of Jerusalem. It produced its first beer in 1995 and has since developed a global cult following.-Background:The Taybeh Brewery was...
    
    
• National Trade Union of Palestine
• Fair Trade organizations in the Palestinian territories
  • Canaan Fair Trade
    Canaan Fair Trade
    Canaan Fair Trade is a supplier of bulk as well as finished and packaged olive oil and other goods to Europe, North America and the Middle East. It was founded in 2004 by Palestinian-American Nasser Abufarha and is based in the West Bank city of Jenin....
    
    
  • Palestine Fair Trade Association
    Palestine Fair Trade Association
    The Palestine Fair Trade Association is a Palestinian national union of fair trade producing cooperatives, processors, and exporters. It was founded in 2004 by Palestinian-American entrepreneur Nasser Abufarha....
    
    
  • Zaytoun
    Zaytoun
    Zaytoun is a non-profit organisation established to support Palestinian farming communities by helping to increase the market for their olive oil products internationally, and also by helping the farmers themselves improve the quality of their oil through training and equipment provision.As a...
    
    
• Currency of Palestine
  Currency
  In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange. These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply...
  
  : Dinar
  Jordanian dinar
  The dinar is the currency of Jordan. The dinar is divided into 10 dirham, 100 qirsh or 1000 fils....
  
  /Sheqel
  Israeli new sheqel
  The Israeli New Shekel is the currency of the State of Israel. The shekel is divided into 100 agorot...
  
  
  • ISO 4217
    ISO 4217
    ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
    
    : JOD
    Jordanian dinar
    The dinar is the currency of Jordan. The dinar is divided into 10 dirham, 100 qirsh or 1000 fils....
    
    /ILS
    Israeli new sheqel
    The Israeli New Shekel is the currency of the State of Israel. The shekel is divided into 100 agorot...
    
    
• Economic history of Palestine
  • Gold Market
    Gold Market
    The Gold Market is a narrow covered passageway located in the old quarter of Gaza; it is both a center for trading and buying gold, and location for foreign exchange. The Market lies along the southern edge of the Great Mosque of Gaza, beside the main Omar Mukhtar Street...
    
    
  • Palestine pound
• Economy of Gaza
  Economy of Gaza
  The Economy of Gaza, once mostly dependent on small-scale industries and agriculture, is now almost entirely dependent on foreign aid. Foreign aid is the "main driver" of economic growth in the Palestinian territories.-19th century:...
  
  
• Energy in the Palestinian territories
  • Energy policy of the Palestinian territories
  • Oil industry in the Palestinian territories
• Health care in the Palestinian territories
  • Palestine Red Crescent Society
    Palestine Red Crescent Society
    The Palestine Red Crescent Society was founded in 1968, by Fathi Arafat, Yassar Arafat's brother. It is a humanitarian organization that part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It provides hospitals, emergency medicine and ambulance services, and primary health care centers...
    
    
  • Augusta Victoria Hospital
  • Al-Shifa Hospital
    Al-Shifa Hospital
    Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest medical complex and central hospital of Gaza, located in the district of North Rimal. The current director of the hospital is Khaled Hassan.-History:...
    
    
• Housing in the Palestinian territories
  • House demolition in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Palestinian refugee camps
• Mining in the Palestinian territories
• Public squares in the Palestinian territories
  • Manger Square
    Manger Square
    Manger Square is an important city square in the center of Bethlehem. It takes its name from the manger where Jesus was born which, according to Christian dogma, is in the Church of the Nativity, possibly the oldest existing church in the world, which surrounds the square. Also around Manger...
    
    
  • Palestine Square
    Palestine Square
    Palestine Square or Midan Falasteen is a city square in central Gaza in between Jamal Abdel Nasser Street and Omar Mukhtar Street. It is the location of a bus station, a taxi station, a fruit market, a hospital, and dozens of small shops and vendors. Gaza's municipal headquarters is also located in...
    
    
  • Soldier's Square
    Soldier's Square
    Soldier's Square or Square of the Unknown Soldier is a city square in Gaza City, situated along Omar Mukhtar Street in the Rimal district...
    
    
• Tourism in the Palestinian territories
  Tourism in the Palestinian territories
  Tourism in the Palestinian territories refers to tourism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The tourism industry declined 90% following the Second Intifada in 2000, though it had recovered, with 2.6 million tourists in 2009, 1.7 million from abroad. Palestinian Authority's Tourism minister is...
  
  
  • Alternative Tourism Group
    Alternative Tourism Group
    Alternative Tourism Group and Study Center is a Palestinian NGO based in Beit Sahour . They specialize in tours and pilgrimages that include critical examinations of the history, culture, and politics of the Holy Land....
    
    
• Transport in the Palestinian territories
  • Airports in the Palestinian territories
    • RAF Haifa (1942–1948) (now Haifa Airport
      Haifa Airport
      Haifa International Airport is an Israeli airport located in Haifa. It is located to the east of the city, close to Kishon Port and Israel Shipyards and mainly serves civilian flights, with some military usage. Most passenger flights passing through the airport are domestic operations to Eilat...
      
       in Israel)
    • Wilhelma Airport (1936–1948) (now Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel)
    • Yasser Arafat International Airport
      Yasser Arafat International Airport
      Yasser Arafat International Airport , formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, is located in the Gaza Strip, in Rafah close to the Egyptian border....
      
       (1998–2001)
  • Rail transport in the Palestinian territories
    • Palestine Railway (1891–1948)
  • Port of Gaza
    Port of Gaza
    -History:In antiquity, Gaza was the principal port city on the Mediterranean that served the Incense Road. It was originally known as "Maioumas," which is linked to a licentious pagan festival. The Port of Gaza was at the end of the Nabataean spice road...
    
    
  • Roads in the Palestinian territories
    • Highway 57
      Highway 57 (Israel)
      Highway 57 is an east-west highway through central Israel and the West Bank. In the past, it was an uninterrupted road from Netanya, a city on the Mediterranean coast in the west, to Damia Bridge across the Jordan River in the east. The road existed in its full length from the time of the British...
      
      
    • Omar Mukhtar Street
      Omar Mukhtar Street
      Omar Mukhtar Street is Gaza City's main street, running from Palestine Square to the Port of Gaza in the Rimal district, separating the Old City's al-Daraj and Zaytoun quarters. Gaza's hotel strip is a part of Omar Mukhtar Street and most of Gaza's most important buildings are located along the...
      
      
    • Star Street
      Star Street
      Star Street is a Dutch children's cartoon that was popular both in Benelux and in the United Kingdom. The protagonists were pink big-nosed creatures comically fashioned after horoscopes of the western zodiac and was set on a small star-shaped planet in the outer reaches of the universe...
      
      
    • Wehda Street
      Wehda Street
      Wehda Street also spelled Wihda Street is a thoroughfare that runs through central Gaza City, more or less parallel with Omar Mukhtar Street. It branches off west of the main Salah ad-Din Road which runs north-south through the Gaza Strip and opens into Nasser Street just before it ends at...
      
      
• Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories
  Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories
  Compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories is characterized by severe water shortage, which is exacerbated by the effects of Israeli occupation...
  
  
• Palestine Stock Exchange
  Palestine Securities Exchange
  The Palestine Exchange in Nablus, or PEX, was incorporated as a private shareholding company in early 1995, with the Palestine Development & Investment Company as its major investor. The PEX was fully automated upon establishment - a first amongst the Arab Stock Exchanges...
  
  

Education in the Palestinian territories

• Education Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
  Education Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
  The Ministry of Education and Higher Education of the Palestinian National Authority is the branch of the Palestinian government in charge of managing the education in the Palestinian territories. It was established in 1994 after the formation of the Palestinian National Authority...
  
  
• Universities and colleges of the Palestinian territories
  • Student organizations in the Palestinian territories
    • General Union of Palestinian Students
      General Union of Palestinian Students
      The General Union of Palestinian Students is an organization run by Palestinian students since the early 1920s. It is generally considered one of the first Palestinian institutions started. It was officially launched in Cairo in 1959....
      
      
    • Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation
      Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation
      The Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation is a youth-oriented Palestinian communication and media non-governmental organization designed to provide a creative outlet for young Palestinians frustrated by the harsh conditions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
      
      
    • Progressive Student Labor Front
      Progressive Student Labor Front
      Progressive Student Labor Front is a Palestinian student organization. It is politically linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine....
      
      
    • Students Liberation Bloc
      Students Liberation Bloc
      Students Liberation Bloc is a Palestinian students organization. It is the students wing of the Palestine Liberation Front.In 2008, the Bloc won two seats in the elections to the students council at Al-Quds University....
      
      
  • Student organizations for the Palestinian territories
    • Palestinian cultural club
      Palestinian cultural club
      Founded in 1998, the Palestinian Cultural Club or the PCC as it is sometimes referred to, was established by a group of Palestinian students at the American University of Sharjah to facilitate the objectives the Palestinian community...
      
      
    • Palestine Solidarity Movement
      Palestine Solidarity Movement
      The Palestine Solidarity Movement is a student organization in the United States which was established in 2000 after the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in Israel. The organization aims to use "divestment as a tactic to non-violently influence a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." ...
      
      
    • Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
      Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
      Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights is a non-profit, student-based organization that advocates on a strong social justice platform to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people...
      
      
    • Students for Justice in the Palestinian territories
    • Students for the Palestinian territories

Books on the Palestinian territories

• Correcting a Mistake: Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel, 1936-1956
  Correcting a Mistake: Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel, 1936-1956
  Correcting a Mistake: Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel, 1936-1956 is a book written by Israeli historian Benny Morris. It is a collection of articles published in 2000 in Hebrew by Am Oved.-The Deportations of the Hiram Operation: Correcting a Mistake:...
  
  
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
  The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
  The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a controversial book about the 1948 Palestinian exodus authored by Ilan Pappé and published in 2006 by Oneworld Publications.Ilan Pappé is one of the New Historians...
  
  
• Palestine (comics)
• Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
  Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
  Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a New York Times Best Seller book written by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. It was published by Simon and Schuster in November 2006....
  
  
• Underground to Palestine
  Underground to Palestine
  Underground to Palestine is a 1946 book by I. F. Stone.In Underground to Palestine Stone reports as a journalist on the hundreds of thousands of European Jewish displaced persons attempting to reach the Jewish homeland in Mandatory Palestine in 1946....
  
  

See also

• Index of Palestine-related articles
• List of international rankings
• List of Palestine-related topics
• Years in the Palestinian territories
  Years in the Palestinian territories
  This is a list of articles about years in the Palestinian territories.* 2010s: 201020112012* 2000s: 2000200120022003200420052006200720082009* 1990s: 1990199119921993199419951996199719981999...
  
  
• Outline of Asia
  Outline of Asia
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Asia:Asia – world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
  
  
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
• Outline of Israel

External links

• The Hope Simpson Report (London, 1930) http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/e3ed8720f8707c9385256d19004f057c!OpenDocument
• Palestine Royal Commission Report (the Peel Report) (London, 1937) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/peel1.html
• Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1928) http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/3d14c9e5cdaa296d85256cbf005aa3eb/a212ce7d6edb27c6052565d4005af973!OpenDocument
• Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1929) http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/38bed104db074b49052565e70054eb22!OpenDocument
• Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1934) http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/3d14c9e5cdaa296d85256cbf005aa3eb/a212ce7d6edb27c6052565d4005af973!OpenDocument
• Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1935) http://domino.un.org/UNISPAl.NSF/3d14c9e5cdaa296d85256cbf005aa3eb/b672dc87b2d50447052565d4005173df!OpenDocument
• www.mideastweb.org - A website with a wealth of statistics regarding population in Palestine
• Coins and Banknotes of Palestine under the British Mandate
• WorldStatesmen- Maps, flags, chronology, see Israel and Palestinian National Authority
• hWeb - Israel-Palestine in Maps
• Palestine Fact Sheet from the Common Language Project
• 1911 Encyclopedia description of Palestine
• Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
• History of the Palestine Problem, UN website

Maps

• Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916
• 1947 UN Partition Plan
• 1949 Armisitice Lines
• Israel After 1949 Armistice Agreements
• Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine