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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
PA: 4.78m Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePalestinian officials say preliminary census results show the Palestinian population in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem has grown by 27 percent in a decade, to 4.78 million.
The findings released this afternoon by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics come amid renewed debate over when Arabs could reach numerical parity with Jews in the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River.
Israeli demographer Sergio Della Pergola has predicted parity in a generation — a prognosis dismissed by right-wing Israeli as baseless and hailed by supporters of an Israeli-Palestinian partition deal as a call for action.
The Palestinian bureau says 2.881 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and 1.899 million in Gaza.
— AP
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