The Palestinian Right of Return
The Legacy of Resolution 194 · The UN Resolution That Time Forgot
Sixty years ago, on 11 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly passed an important resolution about Israel and the Palestinians. It called on the newly formed Israeli state to repatriate the displaced Palestinians “wishing to live in peace with their neighbours…at the earliest practicable date”, and to compensate them for their losses. A Conciliation Commission was set up to oversee the repatriation of the returnees. Though never implemented and frequently ignored since then, Resolution 194 has haunted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process ever since, and has proved the most insurmountable obstacle in all peace negotiations. It is the legal basis for the ‘right of return’, to which Palestinians have clung for sixty years.
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Al-Awda · The Palestine Right of Return Coalition
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Al Nakba and Return
The Palestine Land Society is an independent non-political scholarly society devoted to research and information on Palestine Land and People.