Palestinian people

This page or section needs to be cleaned up. Please help clean the page if you can. For tips on making this article better, read "How to edit a page" and "How to write Simple English pages". (December 2023)

The English used in this article or section may not be easy for everybody to understand. You can help Wikipedia by reading Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages, then simplifying the article. (December 2023)

The Palæstinian people, also referred to as Palæstinians or Palæstinian Arabs (الفلسطينيون), are an Arabic-speaking people of Palestina. The Total Palæstinian population, including descendants, is estimated at approximately 10 million.

Almost exactly half of the world's Palæstinian people (49% to 51%, as of 2009) continue to live in Roman-Palæstina^[1], which includes Israel, West-Bank (Jordan), esp. East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, and East-Bank (Jordan). Some Palæstinians living in this region are refugees.

The rest of the world's Palæstinian population became part of the Palæstinian diaspora, during which millions of Palæstinians left their homelands. Most are stateless refugees with no citizenship in any country.^[2] Over 2.5 million live in Jordan;^[3] a million in Syria and Lebanon combined; a quarter million in Saudi Arabia; and half a million in Chile. Chile has the highest concentration of Palæstinians outside the Arab world.^[4]

1. ↑ "Regrettable statistical error". Ynetnews.com. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
2. ↑ Abbas Shiblak (2005). "Reflections on the Palestinian Diaspora in Europe" (PDF). The Palestinian Diaspora in Europe: Challenges of Dual Identity and Adaptation. Institute of Jerusalem. Studies. ISBN 9950315042. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-14. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
3. ↑ From 1918-22 the region of modern-day Jordan, then called Transjordan, was one of two constituent territories that comprised the British Mandate of Palestine (so-named after the other constituent, Palestine) which was separated to form a new Arab monarchy. Unless otherwise specified, this article uses "British Mandate" and related terms to refer to historic Palestine, that is, the 20% of the post-1922 mandate west of the Jordan river.
4. ↑ Villegas, Alexander (7 November 2023). "In Chile, a Palestinian diaspora makes its voice heard on Gaza". Reuters. Retrieved 28 February 2024.