Palestinians were “expelled by force and terrorism, as a result of the Zionist conspiracy”
“On the 65th anniversary of the Nakba (“the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel), Director of the Abdallah Al-Hourani Center for Research and Documentation, and advisor to the president (i.e., PA Chairman Abbas), Dr. Kamal Al-Sharafi, emphasized the right of return and compensation for the refugees according to the international institutions’ resolutions.
He said that the union between the land issue and the refugee issue has been the foundation of the PLO’s national program for 65 years… and the struggle to redeem the land has become the same struggle for the right of return of the Palestinian refugees, because the Palestinian refugee issue still stands before us tangibly in the refugee camps in the Interior [PA territories] and in the diaspora, as a living testament reminding us of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948. [He added that the Palestinian people] wait and yearn to return to its land from which it was expelled by force and terrorism, as a result of the Zionist conspiracy.
He emphasized that UN resolutions 181 and 194, which constitute an international foundation that guards the refugees’ right to their land, their right to their property and their right to compensation, must be adhered to.”
He said that the union between the land issue and the refugee issue has been the foundation of the PLO’s national program for 65 years… and the struggle to redeem the land has become the same struggle for the right of return of the Palestinian refugees, because the Palestinian refugee issue still stands before us tangibly in the refugee camps in the Interior [PA territories] and in the diaspora, as a living testament reminding us of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948. [He added that the Palestinian people] wait and yearn to return to its land from which it was expelled by force and terrorism, as a result of the Zionist conspiracy.
He emphasized that UN resolutions 181 and 194, which constitute an international foundation that guards the refugees’ right to their land, their right to their property and their right to compensation, must be adhered to.”