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EXPLAINER: The Complicated Plight of Palestinian Refugees
The United Nations defines Palestinian refugees as people “whose normal place of residence was Palestine” between June 1, 1946 and May 15, 1948, and “who lost both home and means of ...
The Times of Israel13d
American Mediators Must Reject the Palestinian Claim to a ‘Right of Return’
For a long time, American efforts to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have suffered from inertia. That includes a ...
ABC News27d
Banning UNRWA will lead to a vacuum and more suffering for Palestinians, the agency's chief says
UNRWA was established to help the estimated 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. It now offers support to the ...
CNN29d
Israel has banned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. That could be devastating for millions
Israeli officials have rejected UNRWA’s definition of which Palestinians are eligible for refugee status, arguing that descendants of the 1948 refugees do not qualify and thus don’t have the ...
Newsday19d
UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from Israeli ban
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday ... from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s ...