Everyone is appalled, sir. And yes, many have called on Sisi and the Egyptian government to step in and do something about this. I know you and you're knowledge is pretty good about the situation so you remember how many time Egypt stepped into the middle of major fighting between Hamas and the Israeli and issued cease fires that probably saved thousands of Palestinian lives. Egypt has only one route to take and that is the diplomatic one which we will probably see after the heavy condemnation that Sisi and the Egyptian government came out with today. I think he will call for immediate cessation of all this violence through the Israeli embassy in Egypt or directly through to Netanyahu who will probably lose his 12th year tenure as the dictator of Israel only to be replaced by someone who might even be worst. Hard to believe.
While that's a great idea for a long term solution IMO, we need something that stops them now before Ramadan is over and Eid is held peacefully at masjid Al Aqsa and all Muslim masjids and areas in East and west Jerusalem. That means an emergency meeting of all the regional powers and a call to Joe Biden and force him to make Israel stop the rubbish immediately. I think that is the only thing that would work. You get all the heads of state from Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Saudiya, UAE, Sudan and more in an emergency meeting and put Joe Biden on speaker phone and tell him that all these countries are willing to suspend any businesses or activities with the US until he tells Israel to end this. Otherwise, the other channels take too long and Israel ignores them anyway. Biden suddenly hearing King Salman, Erdogan, Sisi Imran Khan especially because Pakistan has a lot the US will want from it after the complete withdrawal in September and so forth give him an ultimatum that doesn't cross the line would be the best peaceful solution.
The best thing Jordon, Egypt or Lebanon should do, not to accept any Palestinian refugees. Because the Palestinian population will explode due to an extreme shortage of land. Its 2016 news.
PCBS Reports: Gaza Strip Is the Most Densely Populated Place on Earth
July 12, 2016 MEO Staff Palestine Latest News
On the occasion of the International Population Day on Monday, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) revealed new data about the population in the occupied Palestinian territory, which it said now totaled 4.81 million people in mid-2016.
According to the PCBS, the total population of Palestine in mid-2016 was about 4.81 million; 2.45 million males and 2.36 million females. The estimated population of West Bank was 2.93 million, of which 1.49 million males and 1.44 million females. The estimated population of Gaza Strip totaled 1.88 million, of which 956 thousand males and 925 thousand females. The percentage of the urban population at mid-2016 was 73.9%, while the percentages of population in rural areas and camps were 16.6% and 9.5% respectively. PCBS also kept a record of the population density of Palestine, which is generally high.
PCBS did not give data regarding Palestinians living in Israel and abroad. However, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) estimated earlier this year that 20 percent of the population in Israel — or 1.77 million people — were Palestinian.
Based off of this data, the total population of Palestinians in historical Palestine, which includes present-day Israel — some 6.58 million — outnumbers the ICBS’ estimation of the Jewish Israeli population, which it said totaled 6.38 million, confirming 2014 projections by PCBS.
As of 2010, PCBS estimated that 4.88 million Palestinians lived in the Arab world, while another 626,824 lived in other countries.
Based off of these statistics, the global Palestinian population can be estimated to count more than 12 million people.
In the Gaza Strip, the rate is estimated at 5,154 persons/km2, compared to a lower population density in the West Bank, with 519 persons/km2 at mid-2016. Population projections also revealed that crude birth rate in Palestine is expected to drop from 30.9 births per 1000 of the population in 2016 to 29.0 births per 1000 in 2020. On the other hand, the crude death rate is expected to decline from 3.5 deaths per 1000 of the population in 2016 to 3.4 deaths per 1000 in 2020 in Palestine. Data revealed a decline in the average of the size of households in the West Bank from 6.1 persons in 1997 to 4.9 in 2015, while it declined in Gaza Strip from 6.9 persons to 5.7 for the same period. The size of female-headed households was relatively small, with an average size of 2.9 persons compared to 5.7 persons in male-headed households. The results of labor force survey revealed that the labor force participation rate in the first quarter of 2016 is 45.8% of the total labor force (Persons aged 15 years and above) of which 45.5% in the West Bank and 46.4% in Gaza Strip. The results showed that more than one-fourth of participants in the labor force were unemployed in the first quarter of 2016. The unemployment rate reached 42.8% among females compared to 22.3% among males.
The Gaza Strip, already believed to be the most densely populated place on earth, has a population density of 5,154 persons per square kilometer, PCBS reported — 10 times more than the West Bank density of 519 people per square kilometer.
Palestinians are overwhelmingly urbanized, with PCBS estimating that 73.9 percent of the population lives in urban areas, as opposed to 16.6 percent of in rural areas and 9.5 percent in camps.
PCBS added that the Palestinian population was fairly young, with 39.2 percent of Palestinians aged 14 and younger — 36.9 percent of the population in the West Bank and 42.8 percent in the Gaza Strip — while Palestinians more than 65 years old only constituted 2.9 percent of the population — 3.2 percent in the West Bank, and 2.4 percent in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the profile of Palestinian families has been slowly changing, according to PCBS data. Women’s fertility rate has declined from six births per women in 1997 to 4.1 births in 2013 — 3.7 births per woman in the West Bank compared to 4.5 births in Gaza. As a result, the average household size has gone down from 6.4 persons in 1997 to 5.2 in 2015.
Additionally, 2015 data revealed that 10.9 percent of Palestinian households were headed by women, although these households tended to be much smaller, constituted of an average of 2.9 persons.
Meanwhile, the total labor force participation rate for Palestinians ages 15 and up stood at 45.8 percent, with an average unemployment rate of 26.6 percent, with 18 percent unemployment in the West Bank and a staggering 41.2 percent in the Gaza Strip.
Women’s participation in the labor force remains very low, with 19.4 percent of women participating in the workforce during the first quarter of 2016, compared to 71.6 percent of men. Women were also twice more likely to be unemployed than men, with a 42.8 percent of them unemployed compared to 22.3 percent of men