Palestinians are a people whose land has been largely swallowed by the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 which was accompanied by massacres and mass ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians.
Creating a Jewish state in Palestine was a deliberate, drawn-out and violent process.
Palestine is an area of the eastern Mediterranean, including parts of present-day Israel and the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip along with the seashore of the Mediterranean Sea and the West Bank west of the Jordan River.
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