His date of birth is not known for certain: according to his Palestinian passport, he was born on 1 January 1929, but he claimed to have actually been born in 1938.

Even though Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were issued a Palestinian passport according to the Oslo Accords, many countries ( such as Germany ) still do not recognize their citizenship.

Omar Rezaq had given his name as Omar Marzouki and used a Tunisian passport when boarding that plane at Athens airport, but later he admitted that he is of Palestinian origin and that he was born in Lebanon in 1963.

During her visit, Booth received a Palestinian VIP passport from Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.

In a meeting with 8 Jewish and 8 Protestant Dutch leaders in Israel in May 2011, a statement of cooperation was issued, indicating, for the most part, that the Protestant Church recognizes the issues involved with the Palestinian Christians and that this is sometimes at odds with support for the State of Israel, but standing up for the rights of the Palestinians does not detract from the emphasis on the safety of the State of Israel and vice versa.

With regard to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, Saudi Arabia believes it is " an Arab and Islamic duty " to support the Palestinian cause and it " has issued numerous statements condemning Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people and against the holy sites ".

The Unified National Leadership of the Uprising ( UNLU ) gained credibility where the Palestinian society complied with the issued communiques.

Internal security and public order by the Palestinian police force consisting of police officers recruited locally and from abroad ( holding Jordanian passports and Palestinian documents issued by Egypt ).

In April 1949, he issued the encyclical " Redemptoris Nostri Cruciatus ", in which he appealed for justice for the Palestinian refugees and repeated his call for an " international status " as the best form of protection for the holy places.

Peace Now also said the army demolished 33 percent of the 4, 993 cases of illegal Palestinian construction against which it issued demolition orders.

In 2011, UNESCO issued a statement reiterating that it views East Jerusalem to be " part of the occupied Palestinian territory, and that the status of Jerusalem must be resolved in permanent status negotiations.

Mashal was a vocal critic of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, often refusing to follow directives issued by the PA regarding ceasefires with Israel.

On his return from Egypt Dionysius had troubles with Philoxenus, bishop of Nisibis, who espoused the cause of the anti-patriarch Abraham ; and he then went to Baghdad in 829 to confer with the caliph al-Ma ' mun as to an edict that he had issued on the occasion of dissensions between the Palestinian and Babylonian Jews regarding the appointment of an exilarch.

An Auckland District Court judge issued a warrant for his arrest for alleged war crimes arising from his role in the 2002 assassination of Hamas leader Salah Shahade in Gaza City, in which at least 14 Palestinian civilians were killed, saying that New Zealand had an obligation to uphold the Geneva Convention.

The hostage-takers soon issued demands for the release of 23 Palestinian militants from Israeli prisons, or else they would kill the students.

From 1927 to 1950, the Palestine Currency Board issued Palestinian pounds as the official currency in both Palestine and the Trans-Jordan Emirate.

Following the Six-Day War, the United Nations Security Council issued a resolution with a clause affirming " the necessity ... for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem ," referring to the Palestinian refugee problem.

A Palestinian synod, under the direction of bishops Narcissus and Theophilus, issued " a lengthy review of the tradition about the Easter festival Sunday eve which had come down to them without a break from the apostles ", concluding: Endeavor also to send abroad copies of our epistle among all the churches, so that those who easily deceive their own souls may not be able to lay the blame on us.

The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East, Robert Serry, issued a statement of concern over the move, saying that the site is in Palestinian territory and has significance in both Judaism and Islam.

The British Mandate of Palestine, which administered the territory now known as Israel, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza prior to May 15, 1948, issued the Palestinian pound, a currency equal in value and pegged to the UK Pound, which was divided into 1000 Mils.

Israel inherited the Palestinian pound but, shortly after the establishment of the state, new banknotes were issued by the London-based Anglo-Palestine bank of the Zionist movement.

As the free Gaza Movement activists departed four days later Gaza PM Haniyeh issued genuine Palestinian passports with diplomatic status to the majority describing them as Ambassadors for Palestine.

The White Paper of 1939, also known as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary who presided over it, was a policy paper issued by the British government under Neville Chamberlain in which the idea of partitioning the Mandate for Palestine, as recommended in the Peel Commission Report of 1937, was abandoned in favour of creating an independent Palestine governed by Palestinian Arabs and Jews in proportion to their numbers in the population by 1939 ( section I ).

On March 30, 1947, the Moledet ( 1, 588 passengers ) became disabled some 50 miles outside Palestinian waters and issued an SOS.

De facto, the Palestinian government administers the parts of the West Bank that Israel has granted it authority over from Ramallah, while the Gaza Strip is administered from Gaza.

" The Palestinian Authority however use Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Salfit, Ramallah and Tubas Governorates as administrative centres for the same region.

Throughout November and December 1995, Arafat toured dozens of Palestinian cities and towns that were evacuated by Israeli forces including Jenin, Ramallah, al-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, declaring them " liberated ".

The team claimed that part of the Palestinian leader's wealth was in a secret portfolio worth close to $ 1 billion, with investments in companies like a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Ramallah, a Tunisian cell phone company and venture capital funds in the US and the Cayman Islands.

* 19 February: Palestinian guerillas attacked an army checkpoint at Ein ' Ariq near Ramallah killing six Israeli soldiers.

* 6 June: 18-year-old Israeli student died of gunshot wounds to the chest sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian gunmen opened fire in an ambush.

Ramallah ( Rāmallāh ) ( literally " Height of God ") is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers ( 6 miles ) north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh.

The Intifada Unified Leadership, an umbrella organization of various Palestinian factions, distributed weekly bulletins on the streets of Ramallah with a schedule of the daily protests, strikes and action against Israeli patrols in the city.

In 1991, the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid International Peace Conference included many notables from Ramallah.

On September 13, 1993 the famous White House handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat took place, and schoolchildren in Ramallah handed out olive branches to Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets.

Although considered an interim solution, Ramallah has become the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, hosting almost all governmental headquarters.

The site still serves as the Ramallah headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, as well the official West Bank office of Mahmoud Abbas.

So do the parliament and all the government ministries ,” represents a " collusion " between the Palestinian Authority and Israel to turn Ramallah into the political as well as the financial capital of the Palestinians.

Unfortunately, the Palestinian government of Salam Fayyad has abandoned Jerusalem in favor of Ramallah .”

Many foreign nations have located their diplomatic missions to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, including, as of 2010, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Korea, South Africa, Norway, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, China, Poland, Portugal, The Netherlands, Russia, Jordan, Brazil, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, India, Japan, the Czech Republic, Canada and Mexico.

Ramallah has been described as the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority and serves as the headquarters for most international NGOs and embassies.

By 2010 Ramallah had become the leading center of economic and political activity in the territories under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

In 2010, " more than one hundred " Palestinian businesses were reported to have moved to Ramallah from East Jerusalem, because “ Here they pay less taxes and have more customers.

According to Sani Meo, the publisher of This Week in Palestine, " Capital or no capital, Ramallah has done well and Palestine is proud of its achievements .” Some Palestinians allege that Ramallah's prosperity is part of an Israeli " conspiracy " to make Ramallah the capital of a Palestinian state, instead of Jerusalem.

The term " Natufian " was coined by Dorothy Garrod who studied the Shuqba cave in Wadi an-Natuf, Palestinian Territories, about halfway between Tel Aviv and Ramallah.

She later visited Jewish and Arab doctors and patients at a Jerusalem hospital, followed by visits to Ramallah to see a physical rehabilitation center, and a Palestinian refugee camp.

Government ministers were sworn in by Abu Mazen, the chairman on the Palestinian Authority, at a ceremony held simultaneously in Gaza and Ramallah.

In the 2000 Ramallah lynching, a Palestinian mob, assisted – according to Israel – by Palestinian police, beat to death two Israeli reservists who had entered the city – by mistake, according to Israel.