How much room is there for two populations between the river and the sea?

There is ample room for both populations between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. The land area of Israel plus the Palestinian territories spans about 28,000 square kilometers (roughly 10,800 square miles) — comparable to New Jersey or Panama — and already holds both peoples.

Population of Israel and Palestine combined

How many Israelis and Palestinians live there in total? About 10.1 million Israelis and about 5.4 million Palestinians — roughly 3.2 million in the West Bank and 2.2 million in Gaza, per the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics¹. Combined, the total population of the two peoples is at near parity, about 6.5–7 million each, and roughly 1.8–2 million Arabs are already Israeli citizens — proof the land holds both peoples under one legal system.

Population density in the Gaza Strip and West Bank

Is the territory too crowded? How many Palestinians live in Gaza and the West Bank, and how densely? Gaza, just 365 square kilometers, runs at over 5,000 persons per square kilometer because its 78 percent registered-refugee population² has been confined there — not because the land cannot hold people. The West Bank’s density is far lower, around 500 per square kilometer.

The misleading framing

The propagandistic pro-Israeli framing is demography denial: claiming Palestinian counts are inflated. The one peer-reviewed audit found no inflation, and Israeli officers rely on the Palestinian registry, whose 2017 census of 4,780,978 underlies every World Bank and UN figure since³. Demographer Sergio DellaPergola showed both peoples claim the same small homeland⁴; parity is fact, not “threat.” As Gershom Gorenberg puts it, the problem is not demography but democracy⁵. There is plenty of room for two peoples — what there is no room for is one government ruling another without consent.