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Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons “Perhaps the greatest injustice of the post-World War II period, and certainly the most long-standing, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian is that which has been perpetrated on millions of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Residency and Refugee Rights is an driven from their homes by ethnic cleansing, war and wall-building in the course of Israel`s insatiable BADIL Displaced Persons 2008-2009 independent, community-based non-profit demand for Palestinian land, and forgotten by the international community in its determination to organization mandated to defend and appease the state of Israel. Israel`s recent assault on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead - has resulted in Survey of Volume VI, 2008 - 2009 promote the rights of Palestinian refugees the further displacement of nearly 100,000 persons but again there has been no serious response 215 pages. 30 cm and IDPs. Our vision, missions, programs from the international community. In the past sixty years, norms of international law designed ISSN 1728-1679 and relationships are defined by our to punish war crimes and crimes against humanity and to protect refugees have been forsaken in Palestinian identity and the principles of the case of Palestinians. BADIL`s Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Palestinian Refugees Palestinian Refugees – Statistics – Periodical international law, in particular international seeks to create an awareness of the plight of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons by Palestinian Internally Displaced Persons – human rights law. We seek to advance providing an account of the history of Palestinian displacement, describing the factual situation of Statistics – Periodical the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, and considering the legal framework in which of Survey Palestinian people on this basis. a just solution may be achieved. Hopefully this Survey will go some way towards reminding the HV640.5.P36S97 2009 international community of a forgotten people and of the injustice in which it is complicit.” Surveyand of BADIL Resource Center was established in Editor: Ingrid Jaradat Gassner January 1998 based on recommendations John Dugard issued by a series of popular refugee Professor of International Law and Former Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Human Editorial Team: Toufic Haddad, Reem Mazzawi, conferences in the West Bank and Gaza Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Palestinian Refugees Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Internally Displaced Persons Susan Akram, Nidal Al Azza, Muhammad Strip. BADIL is registered with the Jaradat, Yasmin Gado Palestinian Authority and legally owned “The Badil Research Center’s overview of the situation facing Palestinian refugees and internally by the refugee community represented by displaced persons is reliable and invaluable. It provides readers with facts, interpretation, legal and Demographic Statistics: Mustafa Khawaja a General Assembly composed of activists political analysis, and policy recommendations. Anyone who doubts the relevance of the refugee and Internally in Palestinian national institutions and dimensions of the Israel/Palestine conflict needs to read and ponder this admirable presentation of 2008 - 2009 Copy Edit: Toufic Haddad refugee community organizations. this vital material.” Richard Falk Displaced Persons Professor of International Law and Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Cover Photo: Children navigate through the “This is a unique and precious volume. With the Survey’s publication, Badil have provided an 2008 - 2009 destroyed remains of a civilian neighborhood Our work is implemented by two specialized immeasurable service to scholars and the general public alike. The dispossessed, the hidden from view in Rafah, Gaza units - campaign unit and resource unit and the disenfranchised have been restored to their humanity and dignity. Numbers and statistics (© Zoriah / www.zoriah.com) -and guided by a Board, and supervised by are transformed, through scrupulous and painstaking work, into the embodiment of the Palestinian an Oversight Committee, both of which spirit. Every refugee is here returned to their status as a bearer of inalienable and sovereign rights Design & Printing: al-Ayyam, Ramallah are elected from the General Assembly. under international law.” All rights reserved BADIL has consultative status with UN Karma Nabulsi © BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian ECOSOC, a framework partnership Lecturer in International Relations and Fellow in Politics, Universsity of Oxford, St Edmund Hall Residency & Refugee Rights agreement with UNHCR, and is a member of the global Palestine Right- “Badil’s most recent Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons continues that P.O. Box 728 of-Return Coalition, al-Awda Right-to- organization’s tradition of painstaking documentation and penetrating analysis of the condition of Bethlehem, Palestine Return Coalition (USA), BDS Campaign displaced Palestinians. What is particularly striking about this edition is the commitment to a wide- Tel/Fax: +972 - 2 - 274 - 7346 National Committee, HIC-Habitat angle perspective - one that seeks to make sense of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians within its Tel: +972 - 2 - 277 - 7086 International Coalition (Cairo), CRIN- own putative borders and other territories under its control, as well as of the impacts on displaced Child Rights Information Network (UK), Palestinians of regional developments, such as the U.S. invasion of Iraq. This work will prove to Email: [email protected] ICVA-International Council of Voluntary be an invaluable resource to journalists, researchers, and activists who seek understanding of what Web: http://www.badil.org Agencies (Geneva), ICNP-International remains the central dynamic in the century-long confrontation between Zionism and the Palestinians: 2008 - 2009 Coordinating Network on Palestine, the displacement of the indigenous Palestinian population and the clearing of space for exclusively BADIL Resource Center This report is produced with the generous OPGAI-Occupied Palestine and Syrian Jewish settlement.” for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights support of: Danchurch Aid, ICCO Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative, and BADIL has consultative status with UN ECOSOC and is a member of the Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition (Netherlands), NDC/ European Human PNGO-Palestinian NGO Network. George Bisharat Rights and Good Governance Program, Professor of Criminal Law and Middle East Affairs, University of California, Hastings College of the Law Oxfam Solidarity (Belgium), Spanish Agency BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights for International Development Cooperation i (AECID) and Trocaire (Ireland) “Perhaps the greatest injustice of the post-World War II period, and certainly the most long-standing, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian is that which has been perpetrated on millions of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Residency and Refugee Rights is an driven from their homes by ethnic cleansing, war and wall-building in the course of Israel`s insatiable BADIL Displaced Persons 2008-2009 independent, community-based non-profit demand for Palestinian land, and forgotten by the international community in its determination to organization mandated to defend and appease the state of Israel. Israel`s recent assault on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead - has resulted in Survey of Volume VI, 2008 - 2009 promote the rights of Palestinian refugees the further displacement of nearly 100,000 persons but again there has been no serious response 215 pages. 30 cm and IDPs. Our vision, missions, programs from the international community. In the past sixty years, norms of international law designed ISSN 1728-1679 and relationships are defined by our to punish war crimes and crimes against humanity and to protect refugees have been forsaken in Palestinian identity and the principles of the case of Palestinians. BADIL`s Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Palestinian Refugees Palestinian Refugees – Statistics – Periodical international law, in particular international seeks to create an awareness of the plight of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons by Palestinian Internally Displaced Persons – human rights law. We seek to advance providing an account of the history of Palestinian displacement, describing the factual situation of Statistics – Periodical the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, and considering the legal framework in which of Survey Palestinian people on this basis. a just solution may be achieved. Hopefully this Survey will go some way towards reminding the HV640.5.P36S97 2009 international community of a forgotten people and of the injustice in which it is complicit.” and BADIL Resource Center was established in Editor: Ingrid Jaradat Gassner January 1998 based on recommendations John Dugard issued by a series of popular refugee Professor of International Law and Former Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Human Editorial Team: Toufic Haddad, Reem Mazzawi, conferences in the West Bank and Gaza Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
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