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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/1

• ...that the UN founded the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 1975?
• ...that four planes were simultaneously hijacked (pictured) in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings?
• ...that the tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly has been resumed more times than any other?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/2

• ...that on December 17, 1973 Pan Am Flight 110 was attacked by six gunmen of the Abu Nidal Organization at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome?
• ...that Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouthi is a distant cousin of Marwan Barghouti, another presidential candidate?
• ...that in Lebanon, the spice mixture Za'atar is thought to bring physical strength and keep the mind alert?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/3

• ...that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
• ...that Baqa'a is the largest refugee camp for Palestinians in Jordan?
• ...that the Islamization of the Gaza Strip includes government campaigns against playing cards and dating?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/4

• ...that the Mecelle, the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?
• ...that the Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination?
• ...that Muristan, a complex in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (pictured), was the location of the first hospital of the Knights of St. John?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/5

• ...that the Qedarites, a prominent Arab tribal confederation between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, were named after the second son of Ishmael named Qedar?
• ...that Shafiq al-Hout, former head of the Palestine Liberation Front, resigned from the PLO Executive Committee following Yasser Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993?
• ...that animals at Qalqilya Zoo in the West Bank, including a giraffe (pictured) and three zebras, were casualties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/6

• ...that Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett (pictured) was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• ...that the Palestinian Fedayeen campaign against Israel was one of the causes of the 1956 Suez Crisis?
• ...that although it was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 War, the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's largest industrial park?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/7

• ...that the Hebron glass (pictured) industry goes back to at least the thirteenth century?
• ...that the day after the death of six IDF soldiers in the Battle of the Beaufort, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties?
• ...that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/8

• ...that Qadas was one of seven Metawali villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
• ...that the first stamps of Palestine (Rachel's Tomb stamp, pictured) under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations requirement?
• ...that the Palestinians consider the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber as the site of their future capital?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/9

• ...that the Mosque of Omar (pictured) is Bethlehem's only mosque, named after the Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab, who prayed at the location of the mosque?
• ...that the name of the Palestinian village of Dayr Nakhkhas translates as "monastery of the cattle drover"?
• ...that the tomb of a female saint in Sharafat, East Jerusalem, is venerated in the belief that she can render assistance in times of drought?

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Portal:Palestine/Did you know/10

• ...that Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas?
• ...that during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Palestine Police Force (fort pictured) was augmented by the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and the Special Night Squads?
• ...that the Palestinian town of Tuqu' is the birthplace of the Hebrew prophet Amos?

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