Sentence examples for largely palestinian from inspiring English sources

What was in the past an international gathering was today a local, largely Palestinian event.

Such investors are the key to providing good jobs to the young, underemployed and largely Palestinian work force.

An initial free-for-all led to a strong showing for largely Palestinian Islamic parties that decried each step of the peace process with Israel.

Recent clashes between puritans armed with baseball bats and Jordanian police in Zarqa, a largely Palestinian shanty town north of the capital, left 90 hurt.

Rejecting sharp criticism from overseas and within its own ranks, the Israeli Government today affirmed its decision to confiscate land in largely Palestinian areas of Jerusalem.

Any reasonable analysis would conclude that Abdullah — a Hashemite king in a largely Palestinian country, a weak monarch in a period of popular uprising — is in a precarious position.

But the next step for Gaza may be largely in Palestinian hands.

The king must walk a fine line between his desire to remain Washington's friend and his stewardship of a population that is largely of Palestinian descent and supports Mr. Hussein.

The two sides are now entangled over the issue of reciprocity, a way of reducing the central idea of the Oslo accords -- land for peace -- to a legalistic debate over which party is abiding by the 1997 agreement to place the West Bank city of Hebron largely under Palestinian control.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 8 (IPS) - The devastating Israeli firepower, unleashed largely on Palestinian civilians in Gaza during two weeks of fighting, is the product of advanced U.S. military technology.

On Tuesday, hundreds of people in Tel Aviv marched and blocked traffic after Israeli forces fired on largely unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Monday, killing around 60 people and injuring hundreds more.