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The Region of Palestine, [i] or Historic Palestine, [1] [2] [3] is a geographical area in West Asia. It includes modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine, as well as parts of northwestern Jordan in some definitions. Other names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land .
At least 34,789+ [16] Palestinians and 1,511 Israelis killed in the Israel–Hamas war with a further 1,900,000 Palestinians displaced within Gaza [17] and 500,000 Israelis displaced. [18] The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former ...
Palestine – country in the Middle East, politically under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian government and the Hamas Government in Gaza. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988 and the consequent admission into UN as an observer state in 2012, Palestine is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries. [1]
Friends of the Earth Middle East reports that on the one hand up to 96% of the river's fresh water is diverted by Israel, Jordan and Syria, while on the other hand large quantities of untreated sewage are being discharged into the river. The Dead Sea is the largest body of water in Palestine, while the valley of Marj Sanur forms a seasonal lake.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of the State of Palestine. The State of Palestine (formerly the occupied Palestinian territories) comprise the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. The boundaries, subject to future negotiations, are generally regarded by the international community as being defined by the Green Line.
The Arab–Israeli conflict is the phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between various Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century. The roots of the Arab–Israeli conflict have been attributed to the support by Arab League member countries for the Palestinians, a fellow League ...
Hamas is designated by the U.S. to be a terrorist organization and spearheaded the Oct. 7 attack on Israel where about 1,200 people were killed and around 240 taken hostage, according to Israeli ...
The roadmap for peace or road map for peace ( Hebrew: מפת הדרכים Mapa had'rakhim, Arabic: خارطة طريق السلام Khāriṭa ṭarīq as-salāmu) was a plan to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict proposed by the Quartet on the Middle East: the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. The ...