Husayni is the name of a prominent Palestinian Arab clan formerly based in Jerusalem, which claims descent from Husayn ibn Ali.
Musa al-Husayni was the Mayor of Jerusalem and led the Palestinian national movement
Kamil al-Husayni was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
Mohammad Amin al-Husayni was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, ally of Adolf Hitler, and President of the Supreme Muslim Council
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni led Palestinian irregular forces against the Haganah and other Jewish militias during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He died in combat in al-Qastal.
Palestinians or Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinian Arabs, are an ethnonational group descending from peoples who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who today are culturally and linguistically Arab.
A depiction of Syria and Palestine from CE 650 to 1500
Khalil Beidas (1874–1949) was the first person to self-describe Palestine's Arabs as "Palestinians" in the preface of a book he translated in 1898.
Palestinian mother and child
A 1930 Palestinian women's protest in Jerusalem against the British Mandate. The sign reads "No dialogue, no negotiations until termination [of the Mandate]"
