refugees

Palestinians in Lebanon rise up in protest at military murder of young refugee

Moe Ali Nayel
Beirut
18 June 2012
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are protesting the Lebanese army’s killing of a 16-year-old boy after he was stopped at a checkpoint in his camp.

Campaigners strategize refugee return during South Africa visit

Nora Barrows-Friedman
Berkeley
5 June 2012
A delegation of activists from Palestinian refugee rights groups recently visited Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss the practicalities of implementing the right of return.

Palestinians in Egypt insist on right to return

Rami Almeghari
Alexandria
14 May 2012
Aging Palestinian refugees recount their exile from Palestine during the Nakba and demand the right to return to their homeland.

Palestinians assert right to return on Israeli "Independence Day"

Asa Winstanley
the Galilee
1 May 2012
Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

Tom Friedman's latest advice to Palestinians: accept a farce of a state

Titus North
23 April 2012
In a recent op-ed, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman smugly offers the Palestinians how to settle their “conflict” with Israel: accept the settlements and the violent settlers, give up a large part of East Jerusalem, and forget about the refugees’ right of return.

The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti's latest memoir

Sarah Irving
19 April 2012
Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians.

"We are only guests in Lebanon" - Palestinians look homewards on Land Day

Moe Ali Nayel
Beirut
2 April 2012
Thousands marked Palestinian Land Day in south Lebanon last Friday. Palestinian refugees and Lebanese supporters explain what Land Day means to them.

My Grandfather Passed Away and I was Denied the Right to See Him

My grandfather, 84 year old Ibrahim Hasan Alsaafin, was older than the Zionist state of Israel when he died on Monday in the Khan Younis refugee camp, still yearning to return to his village of al-Fallujah 64 years on, a mere 15 miles away.

How my uncle in Gaza filled me with hope of return

Fidaa Elaydi
Maghazi refugee camp
10 January 2012
Traveling back to Gaza, Fidaa Elaydi finally meets her uncle, who was released from Israeli jail as part of the prisoner swap in October. With his release, and the ability to spend time together, she says it changed the dynamic of her family.

Book review: How Zionism paved way for permanent war

Jimmy Johnson
15 December 2011
A new book spotlights the fundamental nature, history and context of Israeli settler-colonialism in Palestine.

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