why palestine is most important for muslims?
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Islam is a major religion in Palestine, being the religion of the majority of the Palestinian population. Muslims comprise 80-85% of the population of the West Bank, when including Israeli settlers, and 99% of the population of the Gaza Strip.Palestinian Muslims primarily practice Shafi'i Islam, which is a branch of Sunni Islam.
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The Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians(Arabic: الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (Arabic: الفلسطينيين العرب, ạl-flsṭynyyn ạl-ʿrb), are an ethnonational group[31][32][33][34][35][36][37] comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab.[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] Despite various wars and exoduses (such as that in 1948), roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine, the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel.[46] In this combined area, as of 2005, Palestinians constituted 49% of all inhabitants,[47]encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million),[48] the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus about 600,000 Jewish Israeli citizens, which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem) and 20.95% of the population of Israel proper as Arab citizens of Israel.[49][50] Many are Palestinian refugees or internally displaced Palestinians, including more than a million in the Gaza Strip,[51] about 750,000 in the West Bank[52] and about 250,000 in Israel proper. Of the Palestinian population who live abroad, known as the Palestinian diaspora, more than half are stateless, lacking citizenship in any country.[53] Between 2.1 and 3.24 million of the diaspora population live in neighboring Jordan,[54][55] over 1 million live between Syria and Lebanon and about 750,000 live in Saudi Arabia, with Chile's half a million representing the largest concentration outside the Middle East.
Palestinians
(الفلسطينيون,al-Filasṭīnīyūn)
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Total populationc. 13 million[1]Regions with significant populationsState of Palestine4,750,000[2][3][a 1] – West Bank2,930,000 (of whom 809,738 are registered refugees (2017))[4][5][6] – Gaza Strip1,880,000 (of whom 1,386,455 are registered refugees (2018))[2][4][5]Jordan2,175,491 (2017, registered refugees only)[4]–3,240,000 (2009)[7]Israel1,890,000[8][9] (60% of Israeli Arabs identify as Palestinians (2012))[10]Syria552,000 (2018, registered refugees only)[4]Chile500,000[11]Lebanon174,000 (2017 census)[12]–458,369 (2016 registered refugees)[4]Saudi Arabia400,000[13]Qatar295,000[13]United States255,000[14]United Arab Emirates91,000[13]Germany80,000[15]Kuwait80,000[16]Egypt70,000[13]El Salvador70,000[17]Brazil59,000[18]Libya59,000[13]Iraq57,000[19]Canada50,975[20]Yemen29,000[13]Honduras27,000–200,000[13][21]United Kingdom20,000[15]Peru15,000[citation needed]Mexico13,000[13]Colombia12,000[13]Netherlands9,000–15,000[22]Australia7,000 (rough estimate)[23][24]Sweden7,000[25]Algeria4,030[26]LanguagesPalestine and Israel:
Palestinian Arabic, Hebrew, English and Greek
Diaspora:
Other varieties of Arabic, the vernacular languages of other countries in the Palestinian diasporaReligionMajority: Sunni Islam
Minority: Christianity, Samaritanism,[27][28] Druze, Shia Islam, non-denominational Muslims[29]Related ethnic groupsOther Levantines, other Semitic-speaking peoples, Jews(Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, Sephardim), Assyrians, Samaritans, other Arabs, and other Mediterranean peoples.[30]This article contains Arabic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.
Palestinian Christians and Muslims constituted 90% of the population of Palestine in 1919, just before the third wave of Jewish immigration under the post-WW1 British Mandatory Authority,[56][57] opposition to which spurred the consolidation of a unified national identity, fragmented as it was by regional, class, religious and family differences.[58][59] The history of a distinct Palestinian national identity is a disputed issue amongst scholars.[60][61] Legal historian Assaf Likhovski states that the prevailing view is that Palestinian identity originated in the early decades of the 20th century,[60] when an embryonic desire among Palestinians for self-government in the face of generalized fears that Zionism would lead to a Jewish state and the dispossession of the Arab majority crystallised among most editors, Christian and Muslim, of local newspapers.[62] "Palestinian" was used to refer to the