Palestinians carry out Jerusalem 'census'

Palestinian officials say they have carried out a census of Jerusalem which suggests there are many more Palestinians living there than the Israelis have reported.

The survey -- based on data from Palestinian institutes and ministries as well as field work -- put the number of Palestinians in Jerusalem two years ago at well over three-hundred thousand.

The majority of them live in areas annexed by Israel in 1967.

Israel puts the number of Palestinians in the city at one-hundred and eighty thousand.

Both Israel and the Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital. A senior PLO official, Faisal Husseini, said Israeli attempts to Judaise Jerusalem had failed and that the statistics represented Palestinian resistance to being pushed out of the city.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service