Chapter 5: The People.

The chapter describes the groups of people in Palestine. Modern Palestinians can be divided into four main groups: those who remained in Israel after 1948 and their descendants; those who live in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in their own homes and on their own land; refugees from the 1948-49 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars, living primarily in camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria; and those who have settled in other countries, mostly in the Arab world but some as far away as the United States. This last group is called the Palestinian diaspora. Precise numbers are hard to come by, but of the roughly 7.5 million Palestinians in the world, about half still reside in historical Palestine-in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel proper.