Palestinian Return Centre

‘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...

Brief on PRC Parliamentary Delegation to Gaza
  The biggest European Parliamentary Delegation comprised of 55 MEPs and MPs from across Europe visited Gaza between 14 and 18 January 2010. The visit was prepared by the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza and The Palestinian Return Centre... Read more...

Bradford: A week of Actions for Palestine
As Palestinians continue to suffer in occupied Palestine, actions and events escalate in the UK and Europe. University of Bradford Union Union of Students (UBU), Palestine Return Centre and Let Palestinians Study are organizing Palestine Awareness... Read more...

Gaza 1417 Remembrance Die-In Trafalgar Square Saturday 16th January 2010
An event was staged at Trafalagar Square to remember the Palestinians murdered by Israel during Operation Cast Lead this time last year. Despite hideous weather, approximately 200 people came out to show their solidarity and were joined by Manal... 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

A New Initifada: Palestinian refugees and Diaspora also voting?
Is it time for a new Initifada? Trying something new? What if Palestinian refugees and diaspora also voted at the some time as Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza? Is it time for them to be seen and heard from the ballot box? Around the world?... Read more...

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...

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...

Gaza Refugee Camps: Poverty And No Privacy
Gaza is the most densely populated area in the world. Large numbers of the Palestinian refugees dwelled in eight refugee camps after Al-Nakba since 1948 in Gaza city. The closeness of houses with very little distance to separate them-this distance... Read more...

JORDAN REITERATES REJECTION TO ANY CUT OF UNRWA SERVICES
AMMAN, Jan 26 (NNN-PETRA) - Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh has reiterated the Kingdom's rejection of any reduction in services provided by UNRWA to a large number of Palestinian refugees in the Kingdom. The minister, who spoke during a meeting Monday... Read more...