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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

This picture shows tents at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians, during a storm in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, . (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 1, 2025, 9:39 pm
Gaza population down by 6% since war began, says PA bureau, citing Hamas figures
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says population has fallen by 160,000, with over 100,000 leaving enclave; Israel says data is ‘fabricated, inflated, and manipulated’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Orthodox Christian worshipers at an Easter service at the St. Porphyrios church in Gaza City, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
April 23, 2019, 2:28 am
PA: 300 Gazan Christians permitted to enter Jerusalem for Easter as of Tuesday
Israeli security official confirms entry approved to capital and the West Bank; human rights group criticizes ‘small, arbitrary’ permit quota
By Adam Rasgon
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuad Twal, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, attends Sunday mass ahead of Christmas at the Latin church in Gaza on December 16, 2012. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 17, 2019, 9:19 pm
Gazan Christians still waiting for permits to visit Jerusalem for Easter
MK sends letter to deputy defense minister demanding pilgrims in enclave be allowed to enter the West Bank and Israel
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian youths play volleyball as the sun sets in Gaza City, on April 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
August 12, 2018, 2:29 pm
Over half of Palestinian college graduates are unemployed, report finds
37.8% and 72% of male and female graduates, respectively, did not have jobs in 2017; nearly 70% of those who pursued education degrees unemployed
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian women take part in a yoga class at the women's first yoga center in Gaza City on March 28, 2018 (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
March 28, 2018, 8:05 pm
Palestinian census: 4.7 million in West Bank and Gaza Strip
Figures dovetail with Israeli military’s assessment implying looming parity between Jewish and Arab populations in Holy Land
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Illustrative photo of Arab Israelis during a protest in northern Israel on March 30, 2015. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)
December 29, 2016, 6:10 pm
6.58 million each: Palestinians claim they’ll be as numerous as Jews in ‘historic Palestine’ in 2017
Counting Israeli Arabs, Palestinian officials posit demographic parity between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River by next year
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative photo of Palestinian workers inside a smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)
August 11, 2016, 8:45 pm
Palestinian young people face grim employment prospects
Findings indicate 40% of 15- to 29-year-olds are out of work; rate even higher among university graduates
By Dov Lieber
Young children sell bread snacks on Gaza beach on June 13, 2015 in Gaza City, Gaza (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
April 1, 2016, 3:59 am
Gaza child labor doubled in the last 5 years, Palestinians say
Almost 10,000 kids aged 10 to 17 said to work in the Strip in places such as garages and construction sites
By JTA
Palestinians wave their national flag as they demonstrate in Gaza City on April 22, 2014. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
May 12, 2015, 10:57 pm
Palestinians say they number 12.1 million worldwide
Report says 2.8 million live in West Bank, 1.8 million in Gaza, 1.5 million in Israel and 6 million abroad
By AFP and ToI Staff
A Jewish and an Arab man outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, December 10, 2014 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 5, 2015, 10:23 am
Right-wing annexation drive fueled by false demographics, experts say
New Palestinian statistics claim there are about as many non-Jews as Jews between the river and the sea. Although one ex-diplomat strongly contests this, official Israeli data suggests Ramallah is correct
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinians at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip The Palestinian bureau of statistics predicts that by 2016 there will be more Palestinians in 'historic Palestine' than Jews. (Said Khatib/AFP)
December 30, 2014, 2:02 pm
Palestinians say Jews will be a minority by 2016
PA statisticians claim, again, that Palestinian population in Gaza, West Bank and Israel will soon outnumber the Jewish
By ToI Staff
Palestinian families enjoy the beach in Gaza City, Gaza, Oct. 31. 2013 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
February 20, 2014, 3:57 am
In Israel, the ‘demographic issue’ gains resonance
Statistics indicate there are 6.1 million Jews and nearly 5.8 million Arabs living in the Holy Land, threatening Israel’s Jewish character like never before
By Dan Perry and Karin Laub
A Yemenite family walking through the desert on its way to a transit camp set up by the JDC, in 1949. (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Kluger Zoltan, Wikipedia)
June 21, 2013, 2:13 am
On World Refugee Day, Israelis and Palestinians demand recognition for their refugees
Moroccan-born MK: Arabs must ‘accept responsibility for driving out a million Jews’; Ashrawi: Israel must rectify ‘injustice’ to 5.3 million Palestinians
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90/File)
January 1, 2013, 9:33 pm
Major party leaders are all lousy, Olmert moans
Former prime minister wallops politicians left, right and center, says Netanyahu is afraid to make hard decisions
By Aaron Kalman
Illustrative photo of a premature baby at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 1, 2013, 6:27 pm
Palestinians will outnumber Jews between the river and the sea by 2020, PA report says
Ramallah official warns the numbers will end the possibility for a two-state solution
By Aaron Kalman
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