The Palestinian Return Centre is an independent consultancy focusing on the historical, political and legal aspects of the Palestinian Refugees. The organization offers expert advice to various actors and agencies on the question of Palestinian Refugees within the context of the Nakba -
By Issa Nakhla - The first major massacre in the 1948 War was the massacre of Deir Yassin on April 9110, 1948. It was designed to spread terror and panic among the Palestinian population in every city and village of Palestine in order to frighten them into fleeing, so that their homes and land could be confiscated for the use of Jewish colonialist settlers. The tactics of the Zionist Jews were to frighten defenseless people into fleeing their homes out of fear for their lives.
In December 2012, thousands of Palestine refugees fled air strikes, clashes and shelling in Yarmouk camp, Damascus, seeking shelter in UNRWA buildings. Among them are people like 45-year-old Nidal, currently sheltering in UNRWA’s Damascus Training Centre. A long-term sufferer of hypertension and diabetes, Nidal is unable to afford life-saving medicine.
Israeli Public Prosecution accused on Sunday 3 young Jerusalemites with throwing Molotov cocktails in al-Aqsa Mosque in an attempt to burn soldiers.
Palestinian prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdiya has passed away Tuesday morning in the Israeli jail of Soroka in Beersheba after his health condition reached a life-threatening stage.
Israeli ambassador and other Zionist leaders at the U.N met last week to discuss ways on how to revoke the internationally-recognized right of return of Palestinian refugees who were forced from their homes in historical Palestine in 1948 and 1967.
When Syrian warplanes bombed a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus last December, Umm Sami rounded up her three sons, shut the windows and locked the doors so they could neither hear nor heed the call to arms by rebels and pro-government gunmen fighting in the streets.
The United Nations today strongly condemned attacks on Palestinian children in Syria and renewed its call on all parties to the conflict in the Middle Eastern country to cease violence in residential areas to prevent harming refugees and civilians.
It’s been an eventful week here in London, full of activities on all fronts. But by far the most challenging has been the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
