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140 Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (2006-2007) In 1950, the Commission established a sub-office, the Office for the Identification and Valuation of Arab Refugee Property, to identify, value and compile information on refugee properties inside Israel and examine various interim measures by which refugees could derive income from their properties. An initiative to identify Palestinian property, both globally and individually, was conducted based on British mandate records, 179 in order to establish a comprehensive record of individual Palestinian property and so verify individual property claims. Forms (RP/1) were prepared for each parcel owned by Arabs, including partnerships, companies and co-operative societies. Separate forms (RP/3) were prepared for land owned by the state (including land let to Palestinian Arabs), other public authorities (including religious bodies), Jews and other non-Arab individuals. According to the global identification process, 16,324 km 2 of 26,320 km 2 (the total area of Mandate Palestine) were determined to be private property owned by Palestinian Arabs. The individual identification process was completed in the early 1960s. The UNCCP property database contains some 453,000 records documenting around 1.5 million individual holdings. This database is archived at the United Nations. The Commission itself, and several independent experts, have noted that the UNCCP records are problematic in several areas. 180 However, the records provide the most comprehensive database of Palestinian refugee property to date. More recent studies that attempt to compensate for errors in the UNCCP records estimate the total amount of refugee land inside Israel at 17,178 km 2 . 181 Digitization of the UNCCP database was completed in the late 1990s. UNCCP activities related to compensation The UNCCP also examined means and principles for the implementation of compensation. It instructed the Economic Survey Mission, 182 for example, to prepare a preliminary study of the question of compensation, including recommendations concerning the principles on which compensation should be determined, the procedures for submission and valuation of claims, and the mechanisms for considering and settling compensation claims. The Commission emphasized that the Israeli government should be urged to agree to the principle that payment of compensation for property (both movable and immovable) of refugees choosing not to return should be separate from a general peace settlement with the Arab states. The bulk of the refugees from Israeli territory were not citizens of Arab states at the time of their displacement, and therefore their rights to compensation were not to be confused with claims and counter-claims between the contending states. The Commission also examined means to “associate the refugees with the determination of any figure, which might be established.” This included, for example, having refugees present during the different stages of the operation “for the purpose of seeing that their interests [were] protected and giving the benefit of their experience to the United Nations bodies entrusted with the operation.” The UNCCP Office for the Identification and Valuation of Arab Refugee Property completed a global and individual evaluation of Palestinian property, described above, for compensation purposes. The Office assessed the global value of Palestinian Arab land at 100,383,784 Palestinian pounds (or US $280 million at the dollar-pound exchange rate in 1951). This was divided into 70 million pounds worth of rural property, with the remainder as urban property. The Office also assigned an estimate of 21,570,000 Palestinian pounds to movable lost property. The Office requested information from Israeli authorities regarding expropriated movable property in September 1951, but received no response. Due to political considerations, the Commission decided against releasing information concerning the total value of refugee properties based on the individual valuation process. According to recent research, however, Commission records of the individual assessments as of 29 November 1947 valued total Palestinian Arab land in Israel at 235,660,250 Palestinian pounds, of which 31 million pounds worth of property was owned by Palestinians inside Israel, leaving 204,660,190 pounds worth of refugee land. 183
Table 4.2: Estimates of Palestinian Refugee Losses (US$ millions) in 1948 UNCCP (1951) Sayigh(1) (1966) Kubursi(2) (1996) 1948 484 3,050 2,994 property 1998(3) adjusted for inflation 1998(4) adjusted for inflation and real rate of return 3,373 21,259 23,958 150,975 Protection 20,868 property 33,198 property and human capital 148,203 property 235,769 property and human capital (1) Yusif Sayigh, The Israeli Economy. Beirut: PLO Research Center, 1967. (2) Atif Kubursi, Palestinian Rights and Losses in 1948: The Quest for Precision. Washington, DC: The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1996. (3) The original valuations were in Palestinian pounds (LP). Currency and inflation adjustments were made utilizing an exchange rate of LP=$4.03. (4) Based on changes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index for 1947 to 1998. Source: Table compiled by PRRN as part of the summary of the July 1999 workshop on compensation for Palestinian refugees. Available at: http://www. prrn.org. UNCCP activities related to resettlement The UNCCP made several interventions with Arab states to secure resettlement spaces for Palestinian refugees choosing not to exercise their right to return to their places of origin inside Israel. The governments of Jordan and Syria agreed to resettle those refugees choosing not to return to their homes of origin inside Israel, provided that these refugees were indeed given the choice to return, which would be implemented under the auspices of the United Nations. 184 The Egyptian government stated that resettlement would be difficult due to the population density of Egypt and lack of arable land; however, it did not rule out resettlement in the future within the framework of international technical and financial aid. The government of Lebanon also stated that resettlement would be extremely difficult, given the population density of the country. 4.6.3 The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is the primary international body mandated to provide assistance through basic humanitarian relief and services to Palestinian refugees (see Chapter Three). UNRWA also has a mandate to assist, on an emergency and humanitarian basis, 1967 refugees and persons displaced as a result of subsequent hostilities. It has not, however, developed a specific response to internally displaced persons, which includes both refugees and nonrefugees. UNRWA does not have an explicit mandate to provide international protection, as it was intended as a temporary organization to UNRWA Staff evacuating a Palestinian woman and her child in Deheisha refugee camp during the first Intifada, occupied West Bank,1989. © UNRWA Archives. 141
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1948 - 2008: 60 Years of the Palest
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Table of Contents Executive Summary
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Chapter Five: Politics and the Ques
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Executive Summary Palestinian refug
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Jewish State A term used by Israel
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Voluntariness The Wall and its Asso
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