This paper takes advantage of the overlapping geographies of Israeli military and Palestinian civil authority in the West Bank to examine the association between “partial”, or “fragmented”, statehood at the national level and the fiscal capacity of local governments. The main empirical finding is that local governments in areas of the West Bank that operate under shared Israeli-Palestinian cont...

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to provide estimates of future diabetes prevalence in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), and to compare five future policy scenarios for diabetes prevention. DESIGN We created and refined a mathematical Markov model that integrates population, obesity and smoking trends to estimate future diabetes prevalence. Model parameters were derived from the l...

In this manuscript, a Lebanese trainee psychiatrist qualitatively analyses and discusses the provision of mental healthcare services for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There are more than 250,000 Palestinian people sporadically dispersed in the refugee camps in Sidon, Beirut and other major cities in the Levant. Displacement, conflict, trauma, unemployment and poverty are but some of the myri...

This article examines the historical development of Arab–Palestinian soccer under the British Mandate, and then afterward under the State of Israel. It strives to explain why the Arab sporting grandstands—particularly those of soccer—did not become a site for the construction and expression of Palestinian national pride in Israel. “The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of...

Title: Health-related quality of life of Palestinian preschoolers in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study

An exploratory descriptive study design was used to investigate job satisfaction and burnout among Palestinian nurses. A random sample of 152 nurses was recruited from private hospitals. The instruments included a demographic questionnaire, the Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire and the Maslach burnout inventory. Respondents reported moderate levels of job satisfaction and moderate burnout. P...

Background UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is the main primary health-care provider for 4.9 million Palestinian refugees, including 2 million from the Gaza Strip and West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory, spent US$18.3 million on essential medicines dispensed free of charge through clinics in five areas of operation (fields) – Gaza Strip, Jo...

Ever since President Bush introduced his ‘Road Map’ for a permanent solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in April 2003, a great deal of public attention has focused on its demand for a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA) to confront aggressively radical Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad who violently oppose a two-state solution to the conflict. One of the major obstacle...