Experts spoke to ABC News about misconceptions regarding Palestinian culture.
People buy fresh produce at a market in Gaza city, Oct. 10, 2023.The Palestinian people make up one of the largest refugee groups in the world, often forced off their land or pushed to flee amid ongoing conflict in the region, according to the United Nations.
Palestinians have been described as a "young society," with people between 15 and 29 years old comprising 30% of the population, according to the Palestinian historians add that the people's long history of being ignored, attacked and displaced has left many misconceptions about the population unaddressed – something they now hope to remedy."As soon as you identify with them as people – as ordinary human beings – you cannot do what's happening to them right now," said Ussama Makdisi, a history professor at the University of California Berkeley.
According to the United Nations, 81% of the population in Gaza lives in poverty, with food insecurity plaguing 63% of Gaza citizens. Theis 46.6%, and access to clean water and electricity remains at "crisis" levels of inaccessibility, the U.N. states. Palestinian musicians perform in Jerusalem's Old City to celebrate breaking the fast on the eighth day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on May 24, 2018.Palestinians pick olives on agricultural land in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 9, 2022.All of the Palestinian scholars with whom ABC News spoke said the Palestinian passion for fighting to be able to live with dignity has stretched beyond the movement for their own people.
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