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178 Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (2006-2007) Annual commemorations of the Palestinian Nakba each May have seen growing public participation and media attention in the post-negotiations era, and a call for early preparation and co-operation for the 60 th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in 2008 has found support and raised interest not only among Palestinians, but also among civil society in Israel and abroad. On 9 July 2005, the first anniversary of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israel’s Wall in the OPT, over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations and networks in the OPT, Israel and the exile community issued a call for a global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel until it complies with international law, and (1) ends its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantles the Wall; (2) recognizes the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; (3) respects, protects and promotes the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. 81 Badil’s summer camp, ‘Aida Refugee camp, Bethlehem, July 2007. © Anne Paq/Activestills. Excerpt from the Civitas Report “I want to go to Palestine as a Palestinian citizen who has rights, and who knows that she has a land with people around her who feel her pain. I don’t want to be a stranger in Palestine. This is an important issue. I want to go there as a Palestinian citizen recognized by everyone. I don’t want to face problems with the Authority treating me like a third-class citizen. I don’t want to face cultural problems with internal Palestinian society. I have had enough with the special status thing. I don’t want to have special status. I want to be a normal citizen in my country who exercises her rights there.” Participan� the Civitas Project, University of Oxford, August 2006, p. 208.) Inspired by the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, numerous BDS motions and activities were launched in 2006 by student bodies, churches, unions, political parties, community organizations and solidarity committees in various countries, including Belgium, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, 82 as well as in Israel. 83 While all these initiatives call for boycotts, divestment and/or sanctions in order to end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, not all of them include an explicit demand for implementing the right of return of Palestinian refugees. In 2006, the National Committee of the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel published a proposal demanding that the status and relationship of Palestinian citizens of Israel to the state be re-defined. The Future Vision of the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel demands the democratization of the state of Israel, including: equality
Demonstration, London, 9 June 2007 © Enough Occupation Campaign. Politics and the Question of Palestinian Refugees and IDPs between Jews and Palestinians; Israel’s recognition of its responsibility for the Nakba; acknowledgement of the status and rights of Palestinians as an indigenous people and national minority; and respect for the right to social, religious, cultural and national ties with the rest of the Palestinian people. 84 Similar proposals are being informally debated among civil society organizations and networks in the OPT and Israel. The Israeli organization Zochrot, for example, believes that any solution to the conflict “must include equal rights for all the peoples of this land, including the right of Palestinians to return to their homes.” 85 5.4.3 International Human Rights Organizations Human rights organizations continue to remind the parties to the conflict and states of their obligations under international law. In 2005, for instance, Human Rights Watch noted in a letter to US President George W. Bush that despite international condemnation, “the international community, including the United States, has failed to hold Israel accountable to its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention to cease Israeli settlement activity.” 86 In 2006, Amnesty International reaffirmed that “the right to return to one’s own country is based in international law and is the most obvious way to redress the situation of those who are in exile.” 87 In a statement to the Quartet, it also noted that: [t]he history of the conflict and the repeated failure of previous peace initiatives, in which human rights were subordinated to political considerations, stand as compelling evidence that such an approach will bring neither durable peace nor security and, indeed, may further exacerbate the divisions and hamper the search for peace. A durable resolution, one which guarantees peace and security to both Israelis and Palestinians, can only be achieved if key problems which have been left to fester are addressed in a constructive manner, on the basis of respect for human rights and international law. 88 The organization also recommended that the Quartet “not continue to subordinate fundamental human rights to political considerations, and … put in place concrete mechanisms to ensure that all parties comply with their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law.” 89 179
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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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Campaigns for boycott, divestment a
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6. Not to recognize the illegal sit
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Glossary Absentee A person who, at
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Jewish State A term used by Israel
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Refugee Office A sub-office establi
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Voluntariness The Wall and its Asso
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From the Nakba to the Present Day -
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1.1 Background Figure 1.1: Estimate
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In September 1947, the UN Special C
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Map 1.3: 1948 Depopulated Palestini
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Population Numbers, Distribution an
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Assistance Chapter Three UNRWA Food
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Assistance Palestinian refugees in
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UNRWA Funding Assistance UNRWA’s
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Assistance 27 Luigi De Martino, “
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Protection Chapter Four Israeli sol
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Protection Almost 60 years after th
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Protection While there is no formal
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Protection immediate return of all
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Protection of All Forms of Racial D
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Protection Palestinian citizens. Fo
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Protection Investigations conducted
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