Palestinian Refugees in International Law
By Francesca P. Albanese and Lex Takkenberg
Foreword by Karen AbuZayd
Second edition, paperback, 560 pages £65.00
Also available in hardback, £150.00
Published by Oxford University Press, 2020
Available from the publisher at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/palestinian-refugees-in-international-law-9780198784050?cc=it&lang=en&, www.amazon.com, and in Jerusalem from the Educational Bookshop.
Review by Rania Hammad
In the author’s own words, “Like the book’s first edition, the aim of the new book is to provide a precise understanding of the legal aspects of the Palestinian refugee problem, its genesis and implications, as well as to show the problems that these refugees have faced, and the nature of their vulnerability – over the decades – and to explain how international law can be deployed to redress their situation. It is understood that at present, as in the past, the Palestinian refugee problem has not been one of lack of legal framework, but rather one of instrumentalization and political inaction vis-à-vis protracted non-implementation of the law.”... READ MORE https://thisweekinpalestine.com/palestinian-refugees-in-international-law/
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https://thisweekinpalestine.com/a-land-without-a-people/
Al-Nakba
The military Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine started in April 1948. It was carried out by a Zionist European army of 120,000 trained soldiers, formed into 9 brigades, which carried out 38 military operations to conquer Palestine. In the six weeks that preceded Ben Gurion’s declaration of a Jewish state mid-May 1948, this army attacked and depopulated 220 villages and 11 cities, eventually depopulating and destroying 530 villages and towns.11 During these six weeks, it carried out 22 large massacres – out of the 70 that took place during al-Nakba in 1947 and 1948.12 At the time, massacres were used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing. Today, they are elevated to genocide.
Through these measures, the Zionist control of Palestinian land increased from 6 percent (owned by Jews at the beginning of the British Mandate) to 78 percent in 1948. Now, Israel occupies all of Palestine as well as areas in neighboring Arab countries.
Map 1 shows where the Palestinians who became refugees lived before the Nakba, how they were expelled, and where they now live. Based on these facts, who is the aggressor and invader, and who has the right of self-defense?
Today, there are 9 million Palestinian refugees.14 Their homes are occupied by Israelis. Not a single Israeli occupant of their homes has a legal title deed of the property on which they sit. Ninety-four percent of the land in Israel is Palestinian property. Not one acre of this occupied land was obtained by means that would be considered legal under any article in international law.
For 77 years, the Palestinians have never stopped demanding their Right to Return home.
A Land Without a People…
Issue: 324, May 2025
Palestinian Refugees I
Issue: 325, June 2025
Palestinian Refugees II
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| A convoy of trucks carries refugees and their belongings from Gaza to Hebron. © 1949 UN Archive. Photographer unknown. |
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| Born on August 15, 1983 in Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza, Hend Joudat Jouda completed her undergraduate studies at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, majoring in information technology. Hend writes poetry, stories, and songs. She worked as editor in chief of 28 Cultural Magazine for three years. She has published three books in Arabic; Someone Always Leaves (2013), No Sugar in the City (2017), and The Finger That Managed to Survive (2024). Hend has also published a book in Japanese titled In Time of War (2025), and a book in French and Arabic titled A Poet in Time of War (2025). |
Poems by Hend Joudat Jouda
By Hend Joudat Jouda
What Does It Mean to Be a Poet in Times of War?
It means apologizing …
extensively apologizing
to the burnt trees
to the nest-less birds
to the crushed homes
to the long cracks along the streets
to the pale faced children before and after death
to the faces of every sad or murdered mother
What does it mean to be safe... READ MORE https://thisweekinpalestine.com/poems-by-hend-joudat-jouda/
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