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PRC: Israel Steals Heritage after Lands
The Israeli governments designation of two more places in the West Bank as "Israeli Heritage Sites"-the Ibrihimi Mosque (or Cave of the Patriarchs, a mosque that Abraham built and is buried in along with his wife Sarah) in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb... Read more...

‘Eyewitness Gaza' Report Back
UK members of the parliamentary delegation to Gaza, organised by the European Campaign to end siege in Gaza and the Palestinian Return Centre presented ‘Eyewitness Gaza' in Westminster on Monday evening. In a packed Select Committee Room, British... Read more...

Viva Palestina Convoy Celebration Day
Viva Palestina Convoy Celebration Day Tuesday 23 February 2010 7pm - 9pm A Public Event in honour of Viva Palestina Convoy to Gaza The Program will include: - Keynote speech by George Galloway MP - A pictorial slideshow and presentation of the Viva... Read more...

‘Event in the House of Commons: Eyewitness Gaza
Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) and Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) are holding a report back event on the successful trip to the occupied Gaza Strip. The meeting will take place on Monday 1st March 2010, in the House of... Read more...

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon Deserve Civil Rights
Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon face a very uncertain future. They deserve better. When Palestinians were kicked out of their homeland at gun point in 1948, some found a safe haven in Lebanon, where they were received with an open arms.... Read more...

"Neocolonialism is a new form of slavery", a Gazan citizen.
The walls of Gaza are the unofficial Gazette of the Strip. On them one can follow what is going on. The walls are covered by scores of posters, pictures of martyrs, murals, slogans, calls, giant portraits of Yasser Arafat by the young artist... Read more...

Hopes for peace unwarranted
Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have described renewed hopes for the resumption of peace talks with Israel as "highly exaggerated and unwarranted".   Read more...

PRC Publishes its New Syrian Delegation Report
PRC has Published its New Syrian Delegation Report. You can download the file here

Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1876 - 1918
Aqaba, 1917:Troops of the Arab Revolt, "Before Their Diaspora" * Chronology compiled from sources in the Bibliography section 1876 - 1877 * Ottoman constitution promulgated. Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem attend the first Ottoman parliament in... Read more...

Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1918 - 1935
Abu Ghosh, about fourteen kilometers from Jerusalem, on the road to Jaffa. "Before their Diaspora" 1918 * Palestine occupied by Allied forces under British General Allenby. * End of World War I. Read more...

Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1936 -1939
Residents of Abu Ghosh, a village west of Jerusalem, taking the oath of allegiance to the Arab higher Comittee, April 1936. "Before Their Diaspora" 1936 * Legislative Council proposal defeated by pro-Zionist members in British House of Common. Read more...

Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1939 - 1947
1939 * London Conference ends with no agreement reached. * Malcom MacDonald, Colonial Secretary of State, issues White Paper of 1939 embodying British solution to Palestine problem: conditional independence for unitary Palestinian state after ten... Read more...

Raed Salah sentenced to prison by the Israeli occupation
The Israeli Jerusalem's Court of Magistrates has sentenced Raed Salah, the prominent Palestinian leader, to prison on January 13, 2010. Salah is one of the most renowned leaders of the 1948's Palestinians (i.e. located in the Palestinian territories... Read more...

'Return right' key to Palestinian refugee problem
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says a promising solution to the plight of Palestinian refugees lies in their moral and legal right to return to what was once Palestine. Read more...

End of long ordeal for Palestinian refugees as desert camp closes
The UN refugee agency closed the Al Tanf refugee camp between the borders of Syria and Iraqi on Monday and relocated the last of the Palestinian refugees who had been stranded in the bleak no-man's land for nearly four years. Read more...

Israeli forces crack down on Palestinian refugee camp and Stop the Wall movement
Jerusalem, 8 February - Israeli occupation forces, sweeping in on dozens of jeeps, raided the densely populated Shuafat refugee camp north of occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli police spokesman Shmuel Ben Rubi said eleven Palestinian residents were... Read more...