Abstract
2·7 million Palestinians live in the West Bank (including 404 000 in East Jerusalem), occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), and 1·7 million in the Gaza Strip, oPt; an estimated 5·1 million Palestinians live in Arab countries, mainly Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (many now refugees again in Lebanon); and 1·4 million Palestinians live in Israel, where they comprise about 20% of the population. 1 Palestinian Central Bureau of StatisticsPalestinians at the end of 2012. http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/portals/_pcbs/PressRelease/Press_En_PalestiniansEOY2012E.pdf Google Scholar , 2 Palestinian Central Bureau of StatisticsOn the 65th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba design. http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/site/512/default.aspx?tabID=512&lang=en&ItemID=788&mid=3171&wversion=StagingDate: May 14, 2013 Google Scholar 5 million Palestinians are registered as refugees, defined by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict”. 3 UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near EastPalestine refugees. http://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees Google Scholar Nearly a third of refugees still live in refugee camps.
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