Summary
Author of the chapter “The Demographic Transformation of Palestine”, in Ibrahim Abu Lughod (ed.), The Transformation of Palestine (Northwestern University Press, 1971), from which the United Nations study The Right of Return of the Palestinian People (1978) draws the diaspora distributions it uses; the study itself speaks of “expert demographic estimates” and cites her chapter without describing her (The Right of Return of the Palestinian People, PDF p.15, notes PDF p.46).
Details
- The study cites p.162 of the chapter for the June 1967 distribution — of about 2.7 million Palestinian Arabs, a million in exile, a million in the West Bank, 400,000 in the Gaza Strip and 300,000 in Israel — and p.163 for the 1970 distribution, of about 3 million Palestinians, about 400,000 as Israeli citizens and about a million in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, with about 800,000 in Jordan, 600,000 in Syria and Lebanon and 200,000 scattered in other countries (The Right of Return of the Palestinian People, PDF p.15, notes PDF p.46).
Related pages
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, The Right of Return of the Palestinian People, Right of Return