PA official: Refugee camps are “waiting stations until each of us reaches his city and village from which he was expelled”

Tulkarem District Governor Abdallah Kmeil: "We send a message to our beloved ones in the Nour Shams refugee camp and to our beloved ones in the Tulkarem refugee camp, and also to our sisters and brothers in the Jenin refugee camp... We hear your cries... These cries that say: We stand here firm, and these refugee camps are waiting stations until each of us reaches his city and village from which he was expelled."

[Tulkarem Governorate, Facebook page, Jan. 1, 2026]