Outline of the Palestinian territories

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The Palestinian Flag		The Coat of arms of the Palestinian National Authority

A map of the Palestinian territories with the West Bank and Gaza Strip highlighted in red

An enlargeable map of the Palestinian territories and central Israel

An enlargeable map of the West Bank

An enlargeable map of the Gaza Strip

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

Palestinian territories – West Bank and the Gaza Strip, politically under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority and the Hamas Government in Gaza. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries to be part of the State of Palestine,^[1] although this status is not recognized by the United Nations, Israel and major Western nations, including the United States.

1 General reference
2 Geography of the Palestinian territories
3 Government and politics of the Palestinian territories
4 History of Palestine
5 Palestinian culture
- 5.1 Art in the Palestinian territories
- 5.2 Sports and leisure in the Palestinian territories
6 Economy and infrastructure of the Palestinian territories
7 Education in the Palestinian territories
8 Books on the Palestinian territories
9 See also
10 References
11 Bibliography
12 External links

[edit] General reference

Pronunciation: /ˈpælɨstaɪn/
Common English country names: Palestinian territories; 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 [2]; E.U. ISO 3166-1: Palestinian Territory, Occupied [3]; UN-affiliated organizations: Occupied Palestinian Territory [4]
Common endonym(s): al-ʼarāḍi-l-filasṭinīya (Arabic: الأراضي الفلسطينيّة‎); filasṭīn (Arabic: فلسطين‎, also transliterated falasṭīn and filisṭīn; al-ʼarāḍi-l-muḥtalla
Official endonym(s): N/A
Adjectival(s): Palestinian
Demonym(s): Palestinian people (aš-šaʿb al-filasṭīnīy), Palestinians (al-filasṭīnīyūn), or Palestinian Arabs (al-ʿarab al-Filasṭīnīyūn)
Etymology: Timeline of the name Palestine, Name of Palestine, Place names in Palestine
ISO country codes: PS, PSE, 275
ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:PS
Internet country code top-level domain: .ps

[edit] Geography of the Palestinian territories

An enlargeable topographic map of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Outlined in red are the 1949-designated boundaries of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Main articles: Palestinian territories and 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 and Eastern Hemisphere
- Eurasia
  - Asia
    - Southwest Asia
      - Middle East
- Time zone: UTC+02, summer UTC+03
- Extreme points of the Palestinian territories
  - High: Tall Asur 1,022 m (3,353 ft)
  - Low: Dead Sea −412 m (−1,352 ft) – lowest point on the surface of the Earth
- Land boundaries: Officially undefined, figures given are the de facto boundaries of the Green Line as they apply to the West Bank and Gaza Strip (See also Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli Gaza Strip barrier and the Seam Zone)

Total: 466 km (290 mi)

Israel 358 km (222 mi)

Jordan 97 km (60 mi)

Egypt 11 km (6.8 mi)

Coastline: Mediterranean Sea 40 km (25 mi)

Population of the Palestinian territories:
- Palestinian population worldwide, including diaspora: est. 10,000,000 - 11,000,000
- Population of the Palestinian territories: est. 3,800,000
Area of the Palestinian territories:
- Palestinian territories (post-1967): 6,220 km² (2,400 sq mi); The West Bank (including East Jerusalem) is (5,860 km² (2,260 sq mi) and the Gaza Strip is 360 km² (140 sq mi)
Atlas of Palestine

[edit] Environment of the Palestinian territories

An enlargeable satellite image of Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The Palestine Sunbird, native to Palestine

Inflorescence of the Pistacia palaestina, a shrub native to Palestine

The Dead Sea on a rough day, with salt deposits on cliffs.

Colored postcard of the Jordan River by Karimeh Abbud circa 1925.

Palestinian refugees going towards Lebanon from the Galilee in October–November 1948

[edit] Government and politics of the Palestinian territories

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

The building of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah

Form of government: semi-presidential parliamentary democracy^[2]

The souq in the Old City of Jerusalem, which both the Palestinians and Israelis proclaim as their capital

[edit] Branches of the government of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Executive branch of the PLO

Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad meet Gamal Abdel Nasser upon arrival in Cairo to attend first emergency Arab League summit, 1970

Palestine Liberation Organization
- Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of Palestine: Mahmoud Abbas
- Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization

[edit] Executive branch of the PNA

Palestinian Authority
NB. As a result of the Fatah-Hamas conflict, there is a dispute over the Presidency and Prime Ministership of the Palestinian Authority.
- Ministries of the PNA

[edit] Legislative branches of the government of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Judicial branch of the government of the Palestinian territories

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

[edit] Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority

Main article: Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority

[edit] Palestine and the United Nations

UN 1947 partition plan for Palestine

[edit] International organization membership

UN stamp commemorating the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people

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 (AFESD)
Arab League (AL)
Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)
Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU)
FIFA (Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
Group of 77 (G77)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) (affiliate member)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (non-voting observer status)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (representation for 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' equivalent to that of a state)
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Islamic Development Bank (IDC)
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
United Nations (UN) (permanent observer with special privileges) (current representative:Riyad H. Mansour)
- Asian Group of the United Nations
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA)
UNESCO
Universal Postal Union (UPU) (special observer status)
World Health Organization (WHO) (observer status for the PLO) (see also: Palestine's application to the WHO)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

[edit] International aid to the Palestinian territories

International aid to Palestinians

[edit] International solidarity movements

Palestinian solidarity organizations

[edit] Law and order in the Palestinian territories

Main article: Palestinian Law

A veteran of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1969, cleaning his rifle in Jordan. Palestinian fedayeen groups were driven out to Lebanon after Black September in Jordan.

Palestinian fedayeen from Fatah demonstrating in Beirut, Lebanon, 1979

[edit] Military of the Palestinian territories

Main article: Military of the Palestinian territories

Command
- Commander-in-chief: 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
Military ranks of the Palestinian territories: N/A

[edit] Paramilitary forces of the PNA

Main article: Palestinian National Security Forces

Preventive Security Force

[edit] Irregular Palestinian forces

Main article: Palestinian political violence

[edit] Israeli military and intelligence forces

Main article: Israel Defense Forces

[edit] International civilian forces

[edit] Local government in the Palestinian territories

Main article: Local government in the Palestinian territories

Mukataa

[edit] History of Palestine

Main article: History of Palestine, Timeline of the history of Palestine, and Current events of Palestine

Interior of the house of a Palestinian Christian family in Jerusalem. By W. H. Bartlett, ca 1850

Old postcard of men native to Gaza, Palestine

Propaganda label issued by Fatah, 1968-1969

[edit] Palestinian culture

Main article: Palestinian culture

Mosaic detailing on the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem

Old postcard depicting a woman, in traditional Palestinian costume, and children from Ramallah, British Mandate of Palestine

200pxNabulsi soap, a Palestinian handicraft, stacked for drying in "Camel" factory in Nablus in 2008

The Church of Bir Ya'acub (Jacob's Well) in Nablus, West Bank

Hebron glass n display in a shop in Hebron, West Bank

An artist's rendering of Palestinian pottery practices in Jaffa, Palestine in 1859, entitled, "The Potter and Wheel"

The ruins of Khirbet al-Mafjar, an Umayyad era palace in Jericho, West Bank

[edit] Art in the Palestinian territories

[edit] Sports and leisure in the Palestinian territories

Main article: Sports and leisure in the Palestinian territories

[edit] Economy and infrastructure of the Palestinian territories

Main article: Economy of the Palestinian territories

File:Palestine Pound 1939 front.jpg

The Palestine pound, the currency of British Mandate Palestine

Logo of the Taybeh Beer company

The logo of the Palestine Securities Exchange

The Yasser Arafat International Airport in Gaza. Severely damaged by an Israeli airstrike in 2001, the airport has remained closed ever since.

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

[edit] Education in the Palestinian territories

The main building of Bethlehem University in Bethlehem, West Bank

The amphitheatre of An-Najah National University overlooking the city of Nablus, West Bank

Main article: Education in the Palestinian territories

[edit] Books on the Palestinian territories

[edit] See also

	Palestine portal
	Southwest Asia portal

Arabic language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Main article: Palestine

[edit] References

^ [1] "Note that the term Palestine has historically referred to the region which today incorporates Israel as well as the Palestinian territories. The current position was expressed by Mahmoud Abbas in his September 2011 speech to the United Nations: 'When we adopted this program, we were taking a painful and very difficult step for all of us, especially those, including myself, who were forced to leave their homes and their towns and villages, carrying only some of our belongings and our grief and our memories and the keys of our homes to the camps of exile and the Diaspora in the 1948 Al-Nakba, one of the worst operations of uprooting, destruction and removal of a vibrant and cohesive society that had been contributing in a pioneering and leading way in the cultural, educational and economic renaissance of the Arab Middle East. Yet, because we believe in peace and because of our conviction in international legitimacy, and because we had the courage to make difficult decisions for our people, and in the absence of absolute justice, we decided to adopt the path of relative justice - justice that is possible and could correct part of the grave historical injustice committed against our people. Thus, we agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical Palestine - on all the Palestinian Territory occupied by Israel in 1967.'"
^ Martijn Schoonvelde (26 June 2009). "Palestinian Territories". http://www.europeanforum.net/country/palestinian_territories. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ Sela and Ma'oz, 1997, p. 16.

[edit] Bibliography

Roberto Remo Bissio, ed. (1995). The world: a Third World guide 1995-96 (Illustrated ed.). Instituto del Tercer Mundo. ISBN 0855982918, 9780855982911.
Milton-Edwards, Beverley (2008), The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People's War (Illustrated ed.), Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0415410436, 9780415410434
Kogan Page (2004). Middle East Review (27th, illustrated ed.). Kogan Page Publishers. ISBN 074944066X, 9780749440664. http://books.google.ca/books?id=NYszJtC66FAC&pg=PA161&dq=%22official+name%22+palestine&lr=#v=onepage&q=%22official%20name%22%20palestine&f=false.
Said, Edward W.; Hitchens, Christopher (2001), Blaming the victims: spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question (2nd, illustrated ed.), Verso, ISBN 1859843409, 9781859843406
Sela, Avraham; Ma'oz, Moshe (1997), The PLO and Israel: from armed conflict to political solution, 1964-1994 (Illustrated ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312129068, 9780312129064, http://books.google.ca/books?id=0OisRvSZIiAC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=%22PLO%22+%22parliament-in-exile%22&source=bl&ots=IbA51ymG6I&sig=f72QyD5xQPCnqRA-3lfhfagVwh0&hl=en&ei=hzJsSuu7JJahjAeCweG2Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9

[edit] External links

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Wikimedia Atlas of Palestine

The Hope Simpson Report (London, 1930) [5]
Palestine Royal Commission Report (the Peel Report) (London, 1937) [6]
Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1928) [7]
Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1929) [8]
Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1934) [9]
Report to the Council of the League of Nations (1935) [10]
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

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[0] [1] "Note that the term Palestine has historically referred to the region which today incorporates Israel as well as the Palestinian territories. The current position was expressed by Mahmoud Abbas in his September 2011 speech to the United Nations: 'When we adopted this program, we were taking a painful and very difficult step for all of us, especially those, including myself, who were forced to leave their homes and their towns and villages, carrying only some of our belongings and our grief and our memories and the keys of our homes to the camps of exile and the Diaspora in the 1948 Al-Nakba, one of the worst operations of uprooting, destruction and removal of a vibrant and cohesive society that had been contributing in a pioneering and leading way in the cultural, educational and economic renaissance of the Arab Middle East. Yet, because we believe in peace and because of our conviction in international legitimacy, and because we had the courage to make difficult decisions for our people, and in the absence of absolute justice, we decided to adopt the path of relative justice - justice that is possible and could correct part of the grave historical injustice committed against our people. Thus, we agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical Palestine - on all the Palestinian Territory occupied by Israel in 1967.'"

[EF-1] Martijn Schoonvelde (26 June 2009). "Palestinian Territories". http://www.europeanforum.net/country/palestinian_territories. Retrieved 2009-07-26.

[Selap16-2] Sela and Ma'oz, 1997, p. 16.

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Contents

[edit] General reference

[edit] Geography of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Environment of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Natural geographic features of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Regions of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Ecoregions of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Administrative divisions of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Administrative divisions of the Palestinian National Authority

[edit] Demography of the Palestinian territories