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Eastern part of Jerusalem, in dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs since 1967
The available reporting shows that the Palestinian death toll since the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 is a matter of ongoing tallying and dispute, but multiple reputable sources place the combined t...
Countries, international organizations and legal bodies commonly call the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” because they are parts of the former British Man...
Recent demographic reporting places the number of Arabs in Israel (excluding most West Bank and Gaza residents) at roughly 2.04–2.13 million people, about 21–21.5% of Israel’s population (CBS-derived ...
The “Greater Israel” label refers to an expansionist vision that various commentators, politicians and analysts say claims the West Bank, Gaza and parts of neighbouring Arab states; recent reporting a...
Available reporting shows documented instances of Palestinians celebrating the September 11, 2001 attacks in parts of the Palestinian territories and refugee camps — including scenes of sweets being d...
A Palestinian state has been recognised by the majority of U.N. member states and by a growing number of Western governments in 2025, but it exists in a contested, partial form on the ground and lacks...
Israel’s Arab population numbered about of a 10.1 million total on Rosh Hashanah 2025, while the population totaled about , a demographic split that has persisted as a central factor in politics, publ...
Fighting in and around Gaza remains deadly even after an October ceasefire: UN agencies report the enclave “in the grip of a catastrophic humanitarian emergency,” with UNRWA/OCHA counting about 70,117...
Since 1948 Israel’s population composition shifted from a strong Jewish majority toward a more mixed society: the , while the . Different data sets and geographic definitions produce materially differ...
Jordan occupied the West Bank during the 1948 war and formally annexed it by parliamentary resolution on 24 April 1950; that annexation was recognized by only a handful of states and was widely regard...
A two‑state solution as commonly discussed would place the core of a Palestinian state on territory Israel occupied in the 1967 war — the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip — with...
Jordan occupied and then annexed the portion of Mandatory Palestine west of the Jordan River — the West Bank including East Jerusalem — in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War; the formal annexa...
The term “Palestinian territories” commonly refers to the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem — areas widely described in UN, UK and humanitarian maps as the Occupied Palestinian Territories ...
The term "Occupied Palestinian Territory" (OPT) most commonly refers to the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Six‑Day War and treated by the ...
November 2025 saw a sharp surge in violent incidents by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank, including arson, attacks on villages and journalists, and repeated incidents that Israeli offici...
Available reporting shows large, but varying tallies of Palestinian fatalities across the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) for the period 7 October 2023–Nov 2025. Healt...
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War fundamentally redrew Palestine’s land borders: fighting that followed Israel’s declaration of independence produced 1949 armistice lines (commonly called the ) that left Isra...
Executive summary The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is a century-long, multi-layered dispute rooted in competing nationalisms, colonial-era decisions, wars in 1948 and 1967, and ongoing disputes over t...
Since 1948 the territory variously called has been claimed, annexed, occupied, administered or represented by multiple modern states and political administrations: chiefly , , and (through direct admi...
Yes and no: a polity called the State of Palestine exists in international diplomacy—widely recognised by many UN member states and holding “non‑member observer State” status at the United Nations—but...