PA daily article describes Palestinian refugees in Lebanon dreams of returning to a country they have never seen or visited
Headline: “The Palestinians of Lebanon: Our honor is in our return”
“Every Palestinian that lives in Lebanon asserts when he talks about the right to return to his country that this is a right that is not subject to the decision of the occupation state or of its supporters, rather it is subject to basic diplomatic, humanitarian, and national principles that do not include conceding this sacred right, as they read and learned from the wills of their fathers and the Martyrs (Shahids). Many of those from the generation of the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) have already died and did not succeed in realizing their dreams and hopes to return to the cities and villages of Palestine; but they sowed the hope, will power and courage in the heads and hearts of their grandchildren and children so that they would continue the path of struggle until they see Palestine with their own eyes, live within it, and are rid of the title ‘refugee.’
Abadi, a female refugee from the Mar Elias [Refugee] Camp in Beirut, said to [the official PA news agency] WAFA: ‘Palestine is my country and homeland and I have never visited it, but I will return to it. I will never leave it as we have no honor but Palestine.’
Sixteen years old, her family having escaped from the village of Arab Al-Raml in the Haifa district… she emphasized that the right to return is a humanitarian and diplomatic right - but we are prevented from realizing this right, [and] noted that she has will power and courage to realize this right like the rest of her contemporaries, as we have the right and are the owners of the land.
Yusuf Zure'i, a refugee from Gaza in the Ain Al-Hilweh Refugee Camp emphasized that the word ‘right’ will always be connected to the word ‘return,’ and noted that this is our right that is anchored in all of the international laws and cannot be conceded.” …
Yusuf, 20, emphasized that ‘The right of return has much significance and means recognition of the return to the homeland from which we were expelled and to which we will return. Albeit I was born in the diaspora, but my roots were in Palestine the moment I was born.’”
“Every Palestinian that lives in Lebanon asserts when he talks about the right to return to his country that this is a right that is not subject to the decision of the occupation state or of its supporters, rather it is subject to basic diplomatic, humanitarian, and national principles that do not include conceding this sacred right, as they read and learned from the wills of their fathers and the Martyrs (Shahids). Many of those from the generation of the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) have already died and did not succeed in realizing their dreams and hopes to return to the cities and villages of Palestine; but they sowed the hope, will power and courage in the heads and hearts of their grandchildren and children so that they would continue the path of struggle until they see Palestine with their own eyes, live within it, and are rid of the title ‘refugee.’
Abadi, a female refugee from the Mar Elias [Refugee] Camp in Beirut, said to [the official PA news agency] WAFA: ‘Palestine is my country and homeland and I have never visited it, but I will return to it. I will never leave it as we have no honor but Palestine.’
Sixteen years old, her family having escaped from the village of Arab Al-Raml in the Haifa district… she emphasized that the right to return is a humanitarian and diplomatic right - but we are prevented from realizing this right, [and] noted that she has will power and courage to realize this right like the rest of her contemporaries, as we have the right and are the owners of the land.
Yusuf Zure'i, a refugee from Gaza in the Ain Al-Hilweh Refugee Camp emphasized that the word ‘right’ will always be connected to the word ‘return,’ and noted that this is our right that is anchored in all of the international laws and cannot be conceded.” …
Yusuf, 20, emphasized that ‘The right of return has much significance and means recognition of the return to the homeland from which we were expelled and to which we will return. Albeit I was born in the diaspora, but my roots were in Palestine the moment I was born.’”