At its greatest extent, Jund Filastin extended from Rafah in the south to Lajjun in the north, and from the Mediterranean coast well to the east of the southern part of the Jordan River.

In Palestinian folk tradition, Ayyub's place of trial is Al-Joura, a village outside the town of Al Majdal ( Ashkelon ).

Likewise as well within the Christian " Tomb of the Cocks " in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, " we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch ".

Throughout 1968, Fatah and other Palestinian armed groups were the target of a major Israeli army operation in the Jordanian village of Karameh, where the Fatah headquarters — as well as a mid-sized Palestinian refugee camp — were located.

* October 10: Aseel Hassan Asleh, 17, of Araba, near Nazareth, Palestinian with Israeli citizenship and an active Seeds of Peace participant, killed by Israeli police gunfire to his neck at close range while at a demonstration near his village.

* 18 September: The charred body of a 67-year old Israeli construction contractor was found near al-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near the settlement of Ma ' ale Adummim, east of Jerusalem.

* Indur, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

Local government in the Palestinian National Authority-controlled areas are divided into three main groups: Municipal councils, village council and local development committees.

* Teddy Katz versus Alexandroni Brigade In 1998, Teddy Katz interviewed and taped Israeli and Palestinian witnesses to events at Tantura in 1948 and wrote a master's thesis at Haifa University claiming that the Alexandroni Brigade committed a massacre in the Arab village of Tantura during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Faiz al-Amla, a Palestinian dealer from the village of Beit Ula in the Hebron Hills was convicted and sentenced to a six-month jail term as part of a plea bargain.

Ajalon ( also spelled Aijalon or Ayalon ) was a place in the lowland of Shephelah in the ancient Land of Israel, identified today as Yalo at the foot of the Bethoron pass, a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of Ramla in the West Bank.

There was a Palestinian village at the site which, however, became deserted in the 1920s.

The Palestinian village Sar ' a was located in the presumed location of the ancient town.

* al-Karmil, a Palestinian village and modern-day successor to the Biblical Carmel

The first usage was in reference to a group of West Bank settlers from Yitzhar who attacked a Palestinian village in September 2008.

Al-Qastal ( was a Palestinian village located eight kilometers west of Jerusalem.

Danna () was a Palestinian village 13 kilometres north of Baysan that was captured by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, 1992, the remaining structures on the village land are: " Bushes, cactus plants, thorns, and grass now grow around piles of rubble on the village site.

The location of the Jewish village roughly corresponds the former Palestinian Arab village, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Mi ' ar ( known to the Crusaders as Myary ) was a Palestinian village located 17. 5 kilometers east of Acre, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village in 1992 was: " Some truncated stone walls, simple graves, and fig and olive trees remain on the site, which is covered by cypress trees.

al-Mansura was a Palestinian village that was captured by the Israel Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

He is the only one of the Babylonian teachers whose haggadistic utterances approach in number and contents those of the Palestinian haggadists.

Palestinian refugees, predominantly Sunni Muslims, whose numbers are estimated at between 160, 000-225, 000, are not active on the domestic political scene.

Black September called the operation " Ikrit and Biram ", after two Christian Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the Haganah in 1948.

His father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Palestinian from Gaza, whose mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian.

Black September's official name for the operation was " Ikrit and Biram ", after the names of two Palestinian Christian villages whose residents had been killed or expelled by the Israeli military Haganah in 1948.

By 1935 al-Husseini did take control of one clandestine organization, of whose nature he had not been informed until the preceding year, which had been set up in 1931 by Musa Kazim al-Husayni's son, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni and recruited from the Palestinian Arab Boy Scout movement, called the ' Holy Struggle ' ( al-jihad al-muqaddas ).

Hamas rejects the establishment of a " Palestinian entity [...] with no true sovereignty, whose principal duty is to maintain Israel's security.

For example, the Jewish periods of the city's history are important to Israeli nationalists ( Zionists ), whose discourse states that modern Jews descend from the Israelites and Maccabees, whilst the Islamic periods of the city's history are important to Palestinian nationalism, whose discourse suggests that modern Palestinians descend from all the different peoples who have lived in the region.

The film consists largely of a series of brief interconnected sketches, but for the most part records a day in the life of a Palestinian living in Nazareth, whose girlfriend lives several checkpoints away in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

One lyrical section features a beautiful sunglasses-clad Palestinian woman ( played by Manal Khader ) whose passing by not only distracts all eyes, but whose gaze causes Israeli military checkpoint towers to crumble.

" Today's actions do nothing to help the Palestinian people, in whose name the supporters of this session claim to act ," he said in a statement.

JNF has gained ownership of other Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and, in many instances, then transferred these properties through its subsidiaries to Elad, a settler organization whose purpose is to “ Judaize ” East Jerusalem ".

The term " Palestinian " has sometimes been used to refer to a person whose ancestors are originally from the territory corresponding to British Mandate Palestine ( what is now Israel, West Bank & Gaza ).

This definition includes the inhabitants of the West Bank ( including the Dom and Samaritans ), the inhabitants of Gaza Strip, the Israeli Arabs ( including Druze and Bedouin ), the Israeli Jews whose ancestors were living there prior to the onset of Zionist immigration ( the Old Yishuv ), ethnic Jews in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East whose roots are predominantly Palestinian ( Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Italqim, and Romaniotes ) and the communities of Palestinian Refugees all over the world.

UNRWA defines the Palestinian refugees as: those ( and their descendants ) whose normal place of residence between June 1946 and May 1948 was in the land that is now Israel, but they went outside during the 1948 war.

In 2005, the PNA Ministry of Finance cited the Israeli West Bank barrier, whose construction began in the second half of 2002, as one reason for the depressed Palestinian economic activity.

The AIC's main activities include numerous publications, whose intention is to offer an analysis from a critical point of view of events and occurrences in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as supporting and providing resources to movements and campaigns associated with its goals.

Added to that was the fact despite the great variety of Palestinian diplomats available to serve as foreign minister, in the end Hamas chose al-Zahar, who is a novice in the field, and whose belligerent character in the past could damage Hamas in its venture to acquire a new image as a responsible political movement.

Acacius of Caesarea in Greek Ἀκάκιος Mονόφθαλμος ( died 366 ) was a Christian bishop, the pupil and successor in the Palestinian see of Caesarea of Eusebius AD 340, whose life he wrote.