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Palestinians

The Palestinians are an Arab national group from the Southern Levant, predominantly the modern State of Israel.


Palestinians are predominantly Sunni Muslims, thought there are a minority of Christian and Shia Palestinians, as well as Druze and Samaritians that identify as Palestinian. There is dispute about when the Palestinian identity coalesced, be it in the post- or pre-war periods, and if it was an internal development or in direct response to the zionist movement.


The war that established Israel between Jewish and Arab forces resulted in a mass displacement of Palestinian Arabs. There is a significant diaspora of Palesitnians, especially in neighbouring Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs, of which many also identify as Palestinian. Many Diaspora Palesitnians, as well as those from families displaced from beyond the 1948 armistice lines, identify as refugees.


Many Palestinian political movements lay claim to all the land of Israel as the future Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority is one of the pirmary bodies that governs the Palestinians, with varying degrees of control in the West Bank. Palestinians have autonomy in Gaza, which is under the rule of Hamas.

IDF responses to war crimes charges delayed again for months due to Iran op.

There is now a third major probe into potential abuse of Palestinian detainees which could eventually lead to multiple indictments.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF soldiers operating throughout the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, April 7, 2025.

Amid the chaos: A Palestinian reflection on Trump's strategic opportunity for the Mideast - opinion

This moment, for all its pain, suffering, and uncertainty, offers a narrow but strategic opportunity. But only if it is seized with clarity and courage. 

|ByHIBA QASAS
Palestinians collect what remains of relief supplies from the distribution center of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 5, 2025.

GHF slams Reuters over 'false, so-called' document of Gazan relocation, 'deradicalization plan'

GHF stated that it had informed the news agency that it had never seen, created, or been involved in this presentation prior to its publication.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Children take part in a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people at the Palestinian Embassy in Brasilia in June 2025.

Fueling antisemitism, normalizing hate: The dangers of anti-Israel textbooks in education - opinion

The American Jewish community must stand up to anti-Israel textbooks making their way into the mainstream education system.

|ByROBERT HORENSTEIN

From Glastonbury to Nova: Free the dance floor of hate - opinion

What were once spaces for joy and connection are being hijacked by calls for violence and slogans designed not to support anyone, but to turn people against each other.

JULY 3, 2025ByNATALIE SANANDAJI
BOBBY VYLAN spews venom at the Glastonbury music festival last week. There were on-stage chants of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ and ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, Inshallah, it will be free.’

BDS win: Int'l Sociological Association suspends membership of Israel due to 'Gaza genocide'

ISA added that it regretted not taking a clear position condemning the situation in Gaza, and the suspension of ISS "reflects the extraordinary gravity of the current situation."

JULY 1, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Pro-Palestinian protesters wave Palestinian flags, as they demonstrate on the Zuiderstrand beach against the violence in Gaza, on the sidelines of a NATO Summit, in The Hague, Netherlands June 24, 2025.

Health professionals issue appeal: Palestinians, Israelis can work together on public health

In response to a polio outbreak in Gaza in the late 1970s, Palestinian and Israeli health workers collaborated on a groundbreaking immunization strategy.

JUNE 29, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Prof. Tulchinsky at the 2019 conference on micronutrient conditions in the population and sponsored by Israel’s Health Ministry of Health, the Association of Public Health Physicians of the Israel Medical Association, and Ashkelon Academic College.

IDF, Netanyahu reject report on killing of Gazans at aid sites in alleged war crime

Israel's Military Advocate General ordered a probe into possible war crimes over claims that IDF troops deliberately fired at Palestinian civilians.

JUNE 27, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
People react as Palestinian casualties, who were waiting to receive aid, are brought into Nasser hospital, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, June 17, 2025.

Watch: West Bank clashes with Jewish rioters, Palestinians, security forces leave three dead

The security forces evacuated all of the Jewish rioters who had entered the village.

JUNE 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinian residents of Maghayer Al-Dir pack their belongings and leave the village due to fear of attacks by Jewish settlers, in the Bedouin village of Maghayer Al-Dir, north of Ramallah, in the West Bank, May 22, 2025.

Israel's next challenge: Weighing the cost of annexation - opinion

Israeli control of Iranian airspace and America’s action against its nuclear capabilities do not alter the demographic reality in Greater Israel.

JUNE 23, 2025ByTOVA HERZL
An illustrative image of gunfire to Israeli and Palestinian flags.

Zionism isn’t the problem – it’s the foundation for peace - opinion

Zionism is a peaceful ideology built on a Jewish tradition that seeks peace among all people. Given the chance, with a pragmatic and reasonable Palestinian leadership, Israel will end the conflict.

JUNE 22, 2025ByURI PILICHOWSKI
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall

UNRWA to open office in Turkey, Erdogan says as he calls for more support

Israel last year banned UNRWA, saying it had employed members of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas who took part in the October 7 massacre.

JUNE 21, 2025ByREUTERS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington last year. Turkey under Erdogan is no longer a NATO ally in spirit; it is a rogue state pursuing an expansionist, Islamist agenda that threatens stability, states the writer.

Gaza faces a man-made drought as water systems collapse, UNICEF says

UNICEF also reported a 50% increase in children aged six months to 5 years admitted for treatment of malnutrition from April to May in Gaza, and half a million people going hungry.

JUNE 20, 2025ByREUTERS
A Palestinian carries water amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip February 4, 2025

How the keffiyeh has been co-opted and weaponized - opinion

The keffiyeh is now worn as a symbol of violence, terror, incitement, and antisemitism.

JUNE 19, 2025ByALAN BAKER
A STATUE of George Washington is tied with a Palestinian flag and keffiyeh at George Washington University in Washington last year. The keffiyeh is consistently employed as a symbol of revolt, incitement, and terror, says the writer.

High Court rejects petition against Jenin refugee camp home demolitions

The Iron Wall operation began in January and targeted refugee camps and small towns in the northern West Bank, emptying them.

JUNE 18, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN
A road is barricaded in Jenin refugee camp, amid ongoing clashes between Palestinian Authority security forces and militants, in the West Bank, January 8, 2025.