By Carol Stirling. Published January 10, 2011

Palestinian Arabs are an Arabic-speaking Mediterranean people with family origins in Palestine.  In the areas of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, they constitute around 50% of all inhabitants.  The remainder of Palestinians comprise what is known as the Palestinian diaspora, of whom more than half are stateless refugees, lacking citizenship in any country.  Of the diaspora, about 2.6 million make up half the population of neighboring Jordan.  One-and-a-half million are shared between Syria and Lebanon and a quarter million are in Saudi Arabia.  Chile’s half million Palestinians are the largest concentration outside the Arab world.

By religious affiliation, most Palestinians are Muslim, particularly of the Sunni branch of

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