Country: Palestine
Population:
Capital: Gaza
Currency: Jordanian dinara, Egyptian Poundb, Israeli shekelc (JOD, EGP, ILS)
Top level domain: .ps
Int. Phone access: 970
ISO2 code: PS
ISO3 code: PSE
IOC code: PLE
Palestine
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 Languages: Levantine Arabic, Bedawi Arabic, Domari language, Palestinian Arabic Religions: The Gaza Strip is over 99 per cent Muslim, principally Sunni. In the West Bank is approximately 75 per cent Muslim (principally Sunni), 17 per cent Jewish and 8 per cent Christian and others. Country recognition: see below | |
| On the same day that the State of Israel was announced, the Arab League announced that it would set up a single Arab civil administration throughout Palestine, and launched an attack on the new Israeli state. The All-Palestine government was declared in Gaza on 1 October 1948] partly as an Arab League move to limit the influence of Transjordan over the Palestinian issue. The former mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was appointed as president. The government was recognised by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, but not by Transjordan (later known as Jordan) or any non-Arab country. It was little more than an Egyptian protectorate and had negligible influence or funding. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the area allocated to the Palestinian Arabs and the international zone of Jerusalem were occupied by Israel and the neighboring Arab states in accordance with the terms of the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Palestinian Arabs living in the Gaza Strip or Egypt were issued with All-Palestine passports until 1959, when Gamal Abdul Nasser, president of Egypt, issued a decree that annulled the All-Palestine government. | |
Olympic achievements
Olympic Summer Games: 4 times. Medals:  0  0  0Olympic Winter Games: 0 times. Medals: 0 0 0 | |
Provinces / RegionsGaza, West Bank, | |
Major CitiesGaza, Khan Yunis, Hebron, Jabaliya, Nablus, Rafah, | |