The Nakba isn't an historic event with a beginning and an end - it is a tragedy that is repeatedly inflicted on the Palestinians Opinion | Kamel Hawwash
, or ‘catastrophe’, which marked their dispossession and expulsion for the Zionist movement to fulfil its desire to create a homeland for Jews in Palestine.
Israel claims that many left of their accord or as instructed by Arab countries but what is undeniable is that Israel chose not to allow them back to their homes.
In my travels both within historic Palestine but also to refugee camps in UNRWA’s operating areas, I have not met a single refugee who is prepared to give up on his or her right of return. When you ask them, where are you from? The answer is not Beirut, Amman or Damascus, but Safad, Yaffa or Jerusalem.
UNRWA’s role in providing services to Palestinian refugees has meant that as they grow up in its schools with other Palestinians, their identity is maintained. That is what troubles Israel. It is the fact that the young refugees identify themselves as Palestinians, originating from places across historic Palestine that Israel demolished, or from homes it gave to Jewish migrants, which they see as theirs.
Pierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner General of UNRWA, said the shelling of the school was a "serious violation of international law by Israeli forces". He added: "Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN-designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.
An end to US funding, combined with pressure on other countries to absorb the refugees, have had little effect.
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