Who are the so-called "Palestinian People"?
1. The Tulunids (868 - 905) brought in Turks and Africans
2. The Fatamids (909 - 1171) introduced Berbers, Slavs, Greeks, Kurds, and mercenaries of all kinds.
3. The Mamluks (1250 - 1517) imported legions of Georgians and Circassians
1. The Tulunids (868 - 905) brought in Turks and Africans
2. The Fatamids (909 - 1171) introduced Berbers, Slavs, Greeks, Kurds, and mercenaries of all kinds.
3. The Mamluks (1250 - 1517) imported legions of Georgians and Circassians
4. In the fourteenth century, drought caused the immigration into Palestine of eighteen thousand “tents” of Yurate Tartars from the Euphrates.
5. Soon followed twenty thousand Ashiri under Gaza, and four thousand Mongols under Moulai.
5. Soon followed twenty thousand Ashiri under Gaza, and four thousand Mongols under Moulai.
6. Kaisaite and Yemenite tribes followed in their trail.
7. In 1830 the Albanian conqueror Mehemet [Muhammad] Ali colonized Jaffa, Nablus, and Beisan with Egyptian soldiers and their Sudanese allies.
7. In 1830 the Albanian conqueror Mehemet [Muhammad] Ali colonized Jaffa, Nablus, and Beisan with Egyptian soldiers and their Sudanese allies.
8. Fourteen years later, estimation of the thirteen thousand inhabitants of Jaffa to be composed of eight thousand Turco-Egyptians, four thousand Greeks and Armenians, and one thousand Jews and Maronites.
9. Significant Egyptian migration to Palestine happened at the end of the 18th century due to a severe famine in Egypt, some Egyptian immigrants came even earlier to escape natural disasters such as droughts and plagues, government oppression, taxes, and military conscription.
10. In the 19th century, large numbers of Egyptians fled to Palestine to escape the military conscription and forced labor projects in the Nile Delta under Muhammad Ali.
11. Following the First Egyptian-Ottoman War, more Egyptians were brought to Palestine as forced laborers.
11. Following the First Egyptian-Ottoman War, more Egyptians were brought to Palestine as forced laborers.
12. Following the Second Egyptian-Ottoman War, many Egyptian soldiers to permanently settle in Palestine. Egyptians settled mainly in Jaffa, the Coastal plain, Samaria and in Wadi Ara.
13. In 1860, there was significant immigration to Safed by tribes from Algeria and Turkey and a small number of Kurds. Also, some 6,000 Arabs from the Beni Sakhr tribe immigrated to Palestine from what is now Jordan to settle in Tiberias.
14. In 1878, following Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, many Bosnian Muslims, emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, and significant numbers went to Palestine
15. The number of Bedouins who started settling the Negev region from the 7th century considerably increased during Ottoman rule as a result of immigration of both Bedouin tribes from south and east and peasant farmers (fellahins) from Egypt.
The children and grandchildren of these immigrants have now been given an everlasting status of "Palestinian Refugees" and are receiving support from the UN via UNWRA.
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