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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clickable map of the more than 400 depopulated towns and villages of the 1948 Palestinian exodus (red) and the c. 60 modern day Palestinian refugee camps (blue) Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country, village or ...
Palestinians have passed down stories of the Nakba from generation to generation. ... An estimated 5.9 million Palestinians are refugees today as a result of the 1948 conflict, ...
The story revolves around the protagonist, Abu Al-Abd, who is a Palestinian refugee living in a refugee camp. As was the case with most refugees, Abu Al-Abd is unable to secure a job. Him and the other residents of the camp wait every month for donations from international associations.
Jordan already hosts the world’s largest population of Palestinian refugees, according to the United Nations, many of them arriving in 1948 after Israel’s creation, but also in the aftermath ...
Kanafani was born in Acre in 1936 to a middle-class Sunni Muslim family of Kurdish descent. [7] [8] [better source needed] He was the third child of Muhammad Fayiz Abd al Razzag, a lawyer who was active in the Palestinian nationalist movement that opposed the British Mandate and its policies of enabling Jewish immigration, and who had been imprisoned on several occasions by the British when ...
Really, the very beginnings of Palestinian suffering, how Palestinians became refugees, that was completely missing from the landscape. And in many ways, I lived aspects of the story through my ...
An estimated 15 villages were ceded to Israel and a further 15,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] During the Lausanne Peace Conference the US consul, William Burdett, reported on a meeting of the Jordan/Israel Armistice Commission which dealt with a case where 1,000 (UN estimates 1,500) Palestinian Arab inhabitants of Baqa al ...
At the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, the country was home to a large Palestinian population divided along political lines. [8] Tel al-Zaatar was a refugee camp of about 3,000 structures, which housed 20,000 refugees in early 1976, and was populated primarily by supporters of the As-Sa'iqa faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). [8]