Resettling the Dream of a Palestinian State: The 1948 Mideast War with Israel in the Post-Mideast Regime and the 1948 Middle East War
Then he quotes the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who wrote, “My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am not a traveler. I am the lover, and the land is the beloved.”
If they were to leave the camps and move to a Palestinian state, that would be their best-case scenario. The dream of a Palestinian state is no longer alive today.
The UNRWA was barred from operating in Israel by a recent Israeli law. The agency says that it will create challenges but UNRWA is still functioning in several countries, including the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel has always rejected a mass return of Palestinian refugees, saying the Jewish state would be swamped demographically. Israel says that UNRWA perpetuates a cycle of dependency as refugees are passed on from one generation to the next.
“I have the right to come back.” This is both an individual and collective right. Fadi Deeb said that he and his children, grandparents and grandmother can return to the Jaramana Camp.
In 1948, the United Nations passed Resolution 194, which said refugees should be allowed to return to their homes in the earliest date possible.
Israel was involved in several Arab states in the 1948 Mideast War. There were more than half a million Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the Middle East.
The President wants to take over Gaza and relocate 2 million Palestinians who’ve recently been through a devastating war with Israel.
“That’s pie in the sky. It isn’t going to happen. There are a lot of reasons why it won’t happen. But suffice it to say, it’s not going to happen,” said Hussein Ibish with the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
The First Tented Camp: Israeli-Hamas Interaction During the 1994-97 Breakout of the First Gaza Strip Free Trade Agreement, and Israel’s Response to President Trump
The first tented camp has since become a neighborhood of cinder block houses with children running through the narrow streets beneath a tangle of electrical wires.
“The Arab armies were all saying, ‘We are coming to fight for you. She said that they would liberate the land if they left for eight days. People went to carry their keys and lock their doors. So people left thinking they would return in eight days.”
The al- Ali family fled their home in 1948, and then came to the Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.
She told them to return to their original villages if they wanted to approach this from a humanitarian perspective. “Go and rebuild and return them if you truly care about humanity. But don’t deceive people with false claims.”
The Israeli military will resume its combat operations until Hamas is soundly defeated, if Hamas does not return kidnapped Israelis by noon on Saturday, Netanyahu said.
A senior official with knowledge of the matter who is not authorized to speak publicly clarified later that Israel expects three hostages to be released on Saturday — as previously scheduled — and another six “a few days later.” This would mean all hostages who are still believed to be alive and who were supposed to be released in the deal’s first phase would be released in the coming days, faster than originally outlined in the agreement.
Netanyahu appreciated President Trump’s demands for the release of hostages, as well as his vision for Gaza’s future.
Hamas claimed that Israel had not permitted temporary shelters, tents, debris removal equipment, and fuel needed for the ceasefire agreement into the enclave. Israel controls all aid that enters the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu also said that he had instructed the Israeli military to “amass forces inside and around the Gaza Strip.” The Israeli military said it was adding troops to the area.
Israel and Hamas exchanged three hostages for dozens of prisoners. There have been five such swaps so far which freed 16 Israeli and five Thai hostages. 33 Israeli hostages were initially to be released in the first phase of the deal.
Thousands of Palestinians poured north in the middle of the night after the ceasefire began.
When Hamas and other groups broke through the border with Israel in October of 1996, 1,200 people were killed, and more than 250 were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities.