Palestinian youth in the Dheisheh refugee camp talk about what it means for them to be a refugee, their identities and hopes for the future.

Video source: ibdaa194.org

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It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]

To explain the initiative a website has been created:
http://www.return08.com/Eng/index.html

In the website it is proposed that the initiative is implemented on the 14th May, 2008 (to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1948 war).

“Marking 60 years of dispossession and homelessness, it will be a day for the international community and the Palestinian people to [...]

The same plan the Nazis once tried with the Jews (see under the ship St.Louis, 1939). The Israeli plan will be sold as something wonderful for the Palestinians - they just have to move to Jordan and become Jordanians… and the problem will be solved.

Benny Elon’s plan is simple… No Palestinians, No Terror. Now, doesn’t [...]

PA-Israeli document liquidating RoR unveiled

The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper has unveiled in its late edition on Monday a “serious” PA-Israeli document that aims at liquidating the right of return of millions of Palestinian refugees to their homeland in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands.

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A number of alternatives were suggested by the document to solve the refugees’ issue, including [...]

Some 4.4 million Palestinians remain refugees nearly 60 years after the start of the 1948 war. About one third of these refugees still live inside camps. Examples of conditions in various countries: Jordan hosts about 1.8 million Palestinian refugees including some 130,000 people who fled from Gaza in 1967. These refugees, as opposed to most [...]

“I managed to escape the fighting with my wife and kids and my aunt,” Mohammad begins. “But as soon as we got out the camp, the soldiers separated us into two groups. They let the women and children go, and handcuffed the men.” Then, Mohammad says, they were blindfolded and driven away in a large [...]

Following is a letter from a Bahraini friend working with a NGO providing emergency relief to newly displaced refugees from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp in the North of Lebanon:

Dear friends,

Hope this email finds you safe and well.

From the Shatila (Palestinian) refugee camp in Beirut, I am working at an NGO called the Children [...]

Iran is the latest country to sign up to “wall building” borders - in this case along the Iranian Pakistan border in the Baluchistan region. Iran’s justification for the wall is a familiar one. To prevent smuggling of drugs and guns and movement of illegal immigrants.

Whilst the Apartheid wall being built by [...]

I’ve been watching the latest Palestinian refugees crises for a week now. Thousands of Palestinian refugees fled from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as one week of clashes by the Lebanese army and a militant group known as Fath al-Islam has left dozens of soldiers and fighters (better described as terrorists) and an [...]