Ramallah, MINA – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said Tuesday that the number of Palestinians worldwide has reached about 15.5 million, including 7.4 million living in historic Palestine.
In a statement marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the bureau said about 8.1 million Palestinians live in the diaspora. More than two million Palestinians are displaced inside Gaza and the occupied West Bank as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza and continued settlement expansion.
Israel’s war on Gaza has displaced nearly two million Palestinians out of about 2.2 million who lived in the enclave on the eve of the war. About 40,000 Palestinians have also been displaced from refugee camps in the northern West Bank due to ongoing Israeli military operations.
The number of illegal settlements and military bases in the West Bank reached 645 by the end of 2025, including 151 illegal settlements, 350 settlement outposts, and 144 other sites. The number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank reached about 778,567 by the end of 2024, with 42.8 percent concentrated in occupied East Jerusalem.
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Israeli authorities seized more than 5,571 dunams of Palestinian land in 2025 and documented more than 61,000 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers between 2022 and 2025, which led to the uprooting and bulldozing of more than 81,000 trees.
In Gaza, Israel’s war has completely destroyed more than 102,000 buildings and fully or partially damaged more than 330,000 housing units. The Israeli army has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 172,000 others since October 2023.[]
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
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