Question: What is the nationality of someone born in the West Bank?
Google: Living in the West Bank
The citizenship of Palestinians living on the West Bank, within the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, went through three stages. After the creation of the state of Israel and before the passing of a new Jordanian Citizenship Law in 1954, Palestinians were incorporated into the Kingdom of Jordan.
What nationality lives in the West Bank?
West Bank Demographics Profile
Population 2,949,246 (July 2021 est.) note: approximately 432,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank (2019); approximately 227,100 Israeli settlers live in East Jerusalem (2019)
What group of people live in the West Bank?
The population of the West Bank and Gaza is almost completely Palestinian Arab. The bulk of these are Sunni Muslims: 92 percent of West Bankers and 99 percent of Gazans, with the rest Christians.
What is the origin of the name West Bank?
It initially emerged as a Jordanian-occupied territory after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, before being annexed outright by Jordan in 1950, and was given its name during this time based on its location on the western bank of the Jordan River.
Are West Bank Palestinians Israeli citizens?
East Jerusalem Palestinians are governed directly by Israel; while a small minority of them have Israeli citizenship; most have a special residency status that denotes a restricted set of rights compared with those of Israeli citizens.
What nationality is Israel?
The State of Israel maintains a national population registry in which every resident is classified by both "citizenship" and "nationality." The citizenship of all Israelis is listed as "Israeli." However, under "nationality," they are defined as belonging to different ethnic and religious groups, among them Jewish.
Was the West Bank originally part of Israel?
From 1950 until it was occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, the West Bank was governed as part of Jordan, though it was divided from the Jordanian population of the East Bank by the Jordan River.
Is Jerusalem in Israel or Palestine?
Israel claims the whole of Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The US is one of only a handful of countries to recognise the city as Israel's capital.
Is Jerusalem in Israel or West Bank?
Jerusalem is a city that straddles the border between Israel and the West Bank. It is home to some of the holiest sites in both Judaism and Islam, and so both Israel and Palestine want to make it their capital.
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