There are 2.9 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, according to the first census conducted by the Palestinian Authority. An Israeli census conducted in the mid-1990s put the figure at just over 2 million. The Palestinian official in charge of the census said the discrepancy arose because Israel underreported the Palestinian population.
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