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Palestinian Territories
The Palestinian territories consist of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined. They were originally part of the British Mandate of Palestine, then captured and occupied by Jordan and by Egypt and later captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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Israel is fighting a losing battle in the long run victory will surely be for palestine?
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How many children die every day in Palestine?
General Answer
On a general basis, most days do not have any Palestinian child deaths or if such deaths occur, we are talking about incidental numbers, primarily coming from garden-variety homicide.
Strict Numbers
If you strictly want numbers, from September 2000 to October 2015, B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization that is known in Israel for being very sympathetic to the Palestinian Cause, 1,407 Palestinian children have been killed. (This includes the Second Intifada and all three Gazan Wars.) This would average to one Palestinian child death every four days. -- Far less than you likely imagined. Compare this to Darfur, where in 2004, 180 children were dying per day as a result of Sudanese-supported Janjawid.
Discussion of Palestinian Self-Endangerment
If the question is specifically asking about wartime, this entirely depends on what actions Palestinians choose to do. In all three Gazan Wars and in all three Intifadas, Israel has not targeted Palestinian children. While it is certainly the case that Israeli Army, Police, and Civilians have been responsible for the death of Palestinian Children, there is also certainly an actuality that Palestinian Militant and Terror Organizations have caused the death of Palestinian children. In fact, many more of the deaths of Palestinian children are due to either (1) Palestinian children choosing to become suicide bombers or (2) Palestinian families refusing to leave areas where Hamas has set up rocket launchers.
It is very important to note that there is no intention in the Israeli Army, no memorandum, and no unofficial desire to kill Palestinian non-combatants (which includes children). The deaths of Palestinian children are regrettable and if the violence were to cease on both sides, Palestinian children would not have to worry about being embroiled in a conflict where both their country and another could end them.
We should also ask, how many stabbings are occurring throughout Israel right now by Palestinians, especially younger children, who are convinced that by murdering Jews that they will get into paradise and "achieve something" for Palestine.
What clothes do palestine people wear?
palestine people wear clothes for the sun and rain ! like rain- thick clothes and the sun- thin clothes to keep them cool !
There is not a specific thing that people in Palestine wear. They wear the same thing that people in America wear.
Why do Arabs claim a right to Palestine?
The Arabs claim a right to Palestine because many of them used to live there in harmony with Christian and Jewish neighbours. The whole situation was very badly planned in the beginning going back to the Balfour Declaration in the 1920's. The United nations actions in 1948 did nothing to help, and should be changed giving both sides some land. -Unfortunately both sides are now entrenched in such violently opposing points of view that a fair resolution will never be found.
When were Palestinians first heard of?
During the Roman Rule of the Jewish land Judea, about 2000 years ago, the Romans changed the name of the land to Palestine. So the Jews living there were the Palestinians. Only a century ago, millions of Muslims from the Arab countries moved to Palestine, and called themselves the Palestinians because they wanted to show the world that it's their land, which it isn't.
Where would you find Gaza on a map?
Gaza is a small strip of land located in the southwest corner of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the west of the strip.
How did Hamas come to power in Gaza?
Strange as it seems to most of us in the West, Hamas was democratically elected in 2006. Their campaign was that would (1) be less corrupt than Fatah - the reigning party at the time, (2) they would provide medical assistance and school programs, (3) they would have a much more aggressive tone against Israel. All three of these points made them more desirable than Fatah to the Palestinian people.
However, after the election victory, Fatah was unwilling to cede power to Hamas. This led to the Gazan Civil War of 2007, where Hamas forcibly ejected Fatah from the Gaza Strip, but was unable to do so in the West Bank since the Palestinian controlled areas are non-contiguous.
When did the second intifada start?
The Second Intifada started on September 28, 2000. It lasted until February 8, 2005. In the end, the uprising was suppressed.
How long did Palestine remain an Arab Nation?
The underlying supposition of this question, namely that Palestine was ever a Nation in the sense of having self-determination over domestic affairs, is incorrect.
Palestinians trace their roots back to the Abbassid Caliphate in the 1100s and 1200s when Arab blood and Nabatean/Canaanite blood began to mix in what would become the British Mandate of Palestine. This group of people was in no way unique from the peoples who would become the Syrians, Jordanians, or Lebanese. The Abbassid holdings eventually fell to the Mamluks who then lost it to the Seljuks and Ottoman Turks. The Ottomans were forced to cede the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine to the British who held it until 1948, when they withdrew pursuant to UN Resolution 181. Palestinians are trying currently to declare themselves a Nation, but this has not gotten UN backing, nor would it lead to a historically relevant claim.
If what you are trying to ask is "Over what time period did ethnic Palestinians make up the majority population of the territory constituted by the British Mandate of Palestine?" the answer is easier: from the origins of the Palestinian people to 1949 when the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9 ended and Palestinians were forbidden from returning to Israel.
Did the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict start from cultural differences?
Yes and No.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has its origins in the confrontation between immigrant Zionist Jews or Yishuv in the Mandate of Palestine and their interaction with the indigenous Settled Arabs or Fellahin in the 1920s and 1930s. Before that point, the immigration into the land had been a small trickle and Fellahin were not terribly concerned. However, the Jewish immigration in the 1920s was quite large and disruptive. By the mid 1930s, both sides had developed militias which they used both to attack British colonial institutions and each other. Jews also flooded back to the Holy Land following World War II, since they felt that they would always be persecuted in countries where they were the minority. In 1947, as UN Resolution 181 was being debated, a full-scale war erupted between the Jewish militias and the Arab militias which is called the Jewish-Arab Engagement. When Israel declared its independence in 1948, the Arab States joined in the War which caused it to be internationally recognized and called the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9. The on and off conflict that has remained unresolved for over half a century now.
Therefore, if we use the terms Israeli and Palestinian retroactively to those people who would eventually identify or would be identified as Israelis or Palestinians, the conflict started during the 1920s. If we require that these terms be strictly applied, then the conflict started in 1948 when Israel declared its independence.
However, merely being culturally different was not the only reason that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started. There were also non-Fellahin in Palestine such as the Druze, Bedouins, and Circassians. These Arabs and the Circassians actually did endear themselves to the Yishuv and developed strong bonds with them. The Jews and Druze were jointly able to secure Druze rights to Nabi Shu'ayb, which is a Druze holy site. In return, Druze pledged themselves to the physical defense of the Yishuv and fought alongside Jews in the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949 and in all other Arab-Israeli Conflicts. The Circassians have similarly fought alongside Jews in exchange for recognition of their unique cultural heritage and societal integration. The Bedouins were able to strike a strong trade relationship with the Yishuv. The Yishuv was often able to provide Bedouin camps with water and additional jobs. The Bedouins in turn helped the Yishuv maintain a strong agricultural food base, especially in the Galilee Region. Similarly, Bedouins have served alongside Jews in Israel. Currently the Druze are over-represented in the Knesset and are members of nearly every political party except the Religious Jewish Parties.
The reason that the Fellahin, who are now the Palestinians, objected to the Jewish State in addition to cultural difference was that they wanted to create their own country. The Druze, Circassians, and Bedouins knew that they would never have a population large enough to have their own country and so were willing to settle with the Jews who would respect their unique cultures and rights. The Palestinians were not so willing.
What was the value of a shekel in CE 20 Palestine?
In Exodus 30:15, the half-shekel (Temple) annual tax requires that everyone (i.e. every adult male) must pay for the upkeep of the Temple.
The shekel was originally a weight used for barley in Mesopotamia in 3,000 BCE. The weight was later stamped on metals such as gold and silver. Silver was used by the Jews in Jerusalem and other western semetic peoples (Moabites, Edomites and Phoenicians).
The weight of an ancient silver shekel varied between 11 and 17 grams,so a half-shekel would be, say, 1/5 of an ounce of silver, which at today's rate of US$17.20/ounce $3.44.
But I agree buying power is more correct way to value the shekel. Doug Smith in his article "Buying Power of Ancient Coins" estimates that an early Roman denarius at 137 BCE would have bought enough wheat for a month's worth of bread, and was 3 day's wages for a legionary soldier. So he estimates the denarius to be worth US$20.
The denarius had 4.5 grams of silver vs. the shekel's, say, 12 grams, so the shekel could be worth 2.67 x $20 $53.33. However, according to Wikipedia, the denarius was worth approx. 1.6 to 2.85 times its metal content, so the shekel value in comparison to the denarius - based on weight - would be reduced by about half, or US$26.67 in modern day value(unless Judea had the same multiplication factor for value vs. metal content, which would push the shekel back to the modern day value of $53.33).
Probably the Roman currency was more widely accepted in the region and thus had a higher value at that time, so the modern day value of, say. US$30 might not be too far off the ancient value of a Judean shekel, based on buying power.
It is interesting that a silver shekel was minted in Jerusalem during the third year of Bar Kokhba's reign in 68 CE with the Temple's facade, a rising star, and on the back, a lulav and the inscription "To the freedom of Jerusalem." I wonder what the modern day value of this ancient shekel is vs its original value?
Palestine was the Roman designation for a strip of territory that had never previously been occupied (in its entirety) by any other power. Palestine since that point (until the 1948) had always been occupied by a larger Empire that was not based in that region.
Why does Hamas fire rockets at Israelis?
hamas hates israel because the jews have killed and tortured many innocen palenstian lives for no reason. also along time the jews traveled away from the land of israel to live with the romans. romans did not like the jews so they decided to go back to israel whee palenstians had occupied the terrritory.
I believe the name you are looking for is Salidin
Who are the enemies of Palestine?
It depends what you want out of your allies and enemies. If we are speaking about strictly military alliances, then Iran is Palestine's strongest ally while Israel and the United States with Egypt's assistance are its greatest adversaries. If you are speaking about the Palestinian people, the situation completely flips. Israel has assisted the Palestinians in building infrastructure and tax collection. Additionally, most Palestinians receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals when they are injured (even if they are injured in the course of Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts). The United States is the largest single contributor to UNRWA (the UN organization that looks out for Palestinian refugees) and out-contributes all of the Arab countries combined. Egypt has notably used its position as an Arab State and a nation at peace with Israel to negotiate ceasefires between Israel and Palestinian Militant Groups, saving Palestinian lives. Iran, however, is radicalizing the Palestinian populace, making long-term peace less and less likely and providing the weapons that give organizations like Hamas the feeling that they should strike. Both of these acts perpetuate the cycle of violence and are in the worst interests of the actual Palestinians.
Why doesn't Israel hand Gaza to the Egyptians?
There are several reasons why this cannot happen
1) Israel cannot just 'hand Gaza to the Egyptians' as it is currently under Palestinian/Hamas rule. Israel disengaged from the Gaza strip in September 2005, and it has been under Palestinian rule since then. First under Fatah, and subsequently Hamas.
2) The Gaza strip is not an occupied territory that belongs to Egypt 3) The Egyptians do not want to control the Gaza strip
4) The Palestinians want an independent country that include TheGaza strip and the West Bank and they don't want to be ruled by the Egyptians
What continent is the land of Syro-Palestine found in?
It is unclear if "Syro-Palestine" refers to the Roman Territory of Syria-Palaestina or is a term for the general Levant region. Regardless, it is part of Asia.
