Palestinian Christians are Christian citizens of the State of Palestine. In the wider definition of Palestinian Christians,including the Palestinian refugees,diaspora and people with full or partial Palestinian Christian ancestry this can be applied to an estimated 500,000 people worldwide as of 2000. Palestinian Christians belong to one of a number of Christian denominations,including Eastern Orthodoxy,Oriental Orthodoxy,Catholicism,Anglicanism,Lutheranism,other branches of Protestantism and others. Bernard Sabella of Bethlehem University estimates that 6% of the Palestinian population worldwide is Christian and that 56% of them live outside of the region of Palestine. In both the local dialect of Palestinian Arabic and in Classical Arabic or Modern Standard Arabic,Christians are called Nasrani or Masihi. Hebrew-speakers call them Notzri,which means Nazarene.
Kamal Fouad Jumblatt was a Lebanese politician who founded the Progressive Socialist Party. He led the National Movement during the civil war against the Lebanese Front. He was a major ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization until his assassination in 1977. He has authored more than 40 books centered on various political,philosophical,literary,religious,medical,social,and economic topics. In September 1972,Kamal Jumblatt received the International Lenin Peace Prize. He is the father of the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and the son-in-law of the Arab writer and politician Shakib Arslan.
Mahmoud Abbas,also known by the kunya Abu Mazen,is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 11 November 2004,PNA president since 15 January 2005,and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009.
Walter Nathan Tobriner was the 22nd and final President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and a U.S. ambassador.
Dorit Beinisch was the 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel. Appointed on September 14,2006,after the retirement of Aharon Barak,she served in this position until February 28,2012. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Israeli Supreme Court.
Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr. was an American diplomat and statesman. He was the third Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to 1958. He was the director of the United Nations Children's Fund for years (1965–1979). He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A lawyer,he was United States Ambassador to France 1952–1954,as well as United States Ambassador to Greece 1962–1965. Labouisse had been the principal United States Department of State official dealing with the implementation of the Marshall Plan.
The National Bloc is a secular political party in Lebanon that was founded in 1943 as a parliamentary bloc for the 1943 Lebanese elections by Émile Eddébut was later formed as a political party in 1946.
Palestinian prisoners of Israel refers in this article to Palestinians imprisoned in Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The future of Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel is considered central to progress in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Cases of prison sentences include the charges of terrorism or being a member of an "illegal terrorist organization",such as Hamas or prior to the Oslo Accords the Palestine Liberation Organization,but according to some accounts also by political activism such as raising a Palestinian flag.
Muhammed Murdi Issa Al Zahrani is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba from August 5,2002,until November 22,2014. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 713. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1969,in Taif,Saudi Arabia.
Jamil Othman Nasser was a Palestinian politician,leader and permanent figure.
Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa was a Palestinian activist and prisoner in Israel who died after an 87-day hunger strike in protest of his detention without trial. He had been held in prison 12 times under administrative detention,a procedure used by both Israel and the Palestinian National Authority to detain people indefinitely without charges or a trial.
Falastin,meaning Palestine in Arabic,was an Arabic-language Palestinian newspaper. Founded in 1911 in Jaffa,Falastin began as a weekly publication,evolving into one of the most influential dailies in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine.
Nabil Ali Muhammad Shaath is a senior Palestinian official.
Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei,also known by his Arabic name kunyaAbu Alaa,was a Palestinian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh is a senior political leader of Hamas and formerly one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Haniyeh became prime minister after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah–Hamas conflict,but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued to exercise prime ministerial authority in the Gaza Strip. In September 2016,reports indicated Haniyeh would replace Khaled Mashal as Chief of Hamas's Political Bureau. He was elected as Hamas political chief on 6 May 2017.
Muhammad al-Qiq or Mohammed al-Qeeq is a Palestinian journalist,correspondent and reporter for Saudi News Agency Almajd TV Network. Al-Qiq received international attention in 2015 when he began a hunger strike in protest of him being incarcerated under Israeli administrative detention. He was released on May 19,2016,after enduring a 94-day hunger strike.
Torture in the State of Palestine refers to the use of torture and systematic degrading practices on civilians detained by Palestinian forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As of 2018,Amnesty reported that LGBT people were subjected to arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment.
Ehab Bessaiso is a Palestinian poet,architect,and politician. Bessaiso is a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority and served as the Minister of Culture in Palestine from 2015 to 2019.
Qadri Abu Bakr is a Palestinian politician and the current Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs for the Palestinian Authority. He was appointed to this position in 2014,succeeding Issa Qaraqe.
Ashraf al-Ajrami is a Palestinian politician who is known for his contributions to the Palestinian liberation movement. He is a member of two political parties,the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah.
