Expulsion of the Palestinians from their Homes

It was aforementioned that Palestine lies at the west of Asia; at the southern part of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and thus lies at the heart of the ancient world which made it a land bridge connecting between Asia and Africa, and between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. I have also indicated that Palestine totals 27.009 km² only, including Lake Tiberias and the province of Hawlah and half the area of the Dead Sea. This area is wholly inhabitable due to the presence of Lake Tiberias and half the area of the Dead Sea. The area of Palestine is very small and equals approximately 4% of Texas, which means that it is 25 times smaller than it. It also equals 15.3 %  of Washington’s area and about 21 %  of New York’s area, and it is hardly spacious enough for the Palestinians, so how things would be when these great multitudes immigrate to it form all over the world?

The Zionist leaders who mastered the evacuation and immigration of the Jews to Palestine perfectly knew this fact, and perfectly knew that Palestine hardly contained its people, let alone if an exodus of Jews crept to it. Therefore, these Zionist leaders decided to evacuate Palestine from the largest possible number of its native people to be occupied by incomers from all over the world. This thinking was embodied in an article by the ex-Knesset member  in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot dated 1471972 . The truth is that the Palestinian existence in Palestine is inherent in history and is as old as human existence in the Arab region and the proof is Ariha (Jericho), this Palestinian city, which is the most ancient city in history, more than 7000 years old. But the Israeli presence is only recent and the details of the exodus clearly exposes and bares this reality.

And just as the Zionists exercised terrorism against their own countrymen (in Iraq, Libya and Yemen) to convince them to go to Israel, after they loved their life in other countries that guarded their dignity and honor, they also exercised it against the Palestinians to force them to leave their land and evacuate it for the sake of the new incomers who caused the miseries and wars witnessed in the region to this day. These Zionist terrorist acts against the Palestinians since the beginning of the last century triggered horrible massacres. The Jewish Knesset member confessed to this fact in his article published by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, in which he considered the evacuation of Palestine from its people as “an inevitable necessity”, in order to establish their own foreign and intrusive entity upon the region. The whole world should know how the Jews entered Palestine and dominated it, and how did Israel enter the Arab region and wage wars and inflict tragedies only known by the people of the region and a minority in the world, owing to its being marginalized by political parties and media systems connected with World Zionism. The British Colonial Secretary, Malcolm MacDonald, delivered in 23 November 1938 an important testimony in the House of Commons in which he explained the present situation in Palestine. This testimony under the title “Division Project”, is considered a momentous proof on the reality of the situation in Palestine at that time. The statement expressed his understanding of the Arab position and the soundness of the Arab views.

This crucial testimony stated by the British Colonial Secretary clearly reveals the drastic psychological state that the Palestinians lived when the Jews invaded their country, after they accepted in the beginning the peaceful entry of the Jews and treated them unguardedly because they trusted them, and for their simplicity and ignorance of what these intruders harbored. Today the whole world knows what the Jews harbored then while seeing a Palestinian population homeless, whose children are killed every day. The Jews betrayed the trust shown by the Palestinians, who one day welcomed them and accepted their presence in their land. But sorrowfully found themselves under the gun of these intruders who became the rulers of the capabilities and possessions of the Palestinians, mostly found themselves just foreign refugees in adjacent countries.

The attorney Wakim Wakim, Secretary of National Committee for the Defense of the Rights of the Uprooted in Israel, said in an article published for him on the site of Women’s Committee for Supporting the Palestinian’s Right of Return: “At the time of announcing the division resolution, number 181 dated 29111947, there lived in the regions under the Jewish State, in conformity with the division resolution, more than 243000 Arabs in 219 villages and four cities which are Haifa, Tiberias, Safad and Baysan. During the time between the division resolution and until June 1948, more than 239000 Arabs were driven out from this region and 180 Arab villages were evacuated and completely destroyed. Also the inhabitants of three big countries: Safad, Tiberias and Baysan were completely expelled, whereas 1950 Palestinians remained in Haifa. In the meantime the military Zionist organizations drove out about 122000 Arabs from the regions under the control of the Palestinian State and 70 villages were evacuated and completely destroyed. The people of Yafa and Akka were almost totally driven out. Furthermore, a very big part of the people of Al-Ladd and Ar-Ramlah were expelled.

Many people think that the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land concurred with the eruption of the military Zionist activities in 1948. But delving into the pages of history, which the Zionist media and ideology kept in the dark in a way unprecedented before in history, ascertains that the expulsion started, theoretically at least, with Herzl launching his book, “The Jewish State,” the Torah of Zionism. The base of establishing the Jewish state in our country Palestine meant the expulsion of all our people, or at least the majority, as the military Zionist organizations did and the state of Israel after it.

The first act of expulsion actually took place in 1905, when the Zionist settlers conspired with some feudatories from Lebanon to buy lands from the village that overlooks Al-Jalil Al-Ala (Upper Galilee) and expel the peasants, who molded its soil with their sweat and blood. One of the Jewish settlers wrote at that time about the deep attachment of the peasants to their lands, saying “even their animals cried” when they were forced to leave.

Also the historical documents point to the expulsion of about 70 000 Palestinian peasants and the destruction of their villages before the eruption of war – the Disaster in 1948 – even before the final approval of the crime by the UN organization that sanctioned the resolution of dividing Palestine equally with the Jewish settlers. The total of the Palestinians who were expelled from their country exceeded 726 000 citizens, and there only remained in Palestine about 156 000 Palestinians, 40000 among them have been dislodged inside Palestine and have resorted to the neighboring villages and countries, their number exceeds today 200 000 uprooted persons. They form in some of the villages they resorted to 50% from the inhabitants or even more. The huge numbers of those dislodged and homeless people inside and outside, indisputably prove the falsity of the Zionist claim alleging that the refugees where dislodged in compliance with the demand of their leaders, taking into consideration the short period that extended between 1121947 and the first of June when the terror of the armed Zionist organizations against the Palestinian inhabitants aggravated. The activity lately assumed by some new military Israeli historians, and in their lead “Benny Maurice”, proves the truthfulness of the Palestinian account that affirms that the forced expulsion operation took place in a systematic and planned method with the design of “ethnically cleansing” Palestine of its Arab inhabitants. For the forced expulsion operation was accompanied with intensive attacks of violence, terrorism and massacres that stood as one of the chief reasons behind the departure of the Arabs of Palestine. The military Israeli historian Prof. Ytzhak, the lecturer in Bar-llan University, estimated that the organized bloodbaths committed by the Israeli gangs exceeded ninety bloodbaths. These military operations were coupled with a policy of psychological warfare through leaking news about the massacres on a local scale so that the atrocities of genocide, rape, and destruction reach the hearing of the Palestinian inhabitants especially the conservative Palestinian countryside, with the aim of implanting in the souls of the inhabitants a state of horror and panic, thus they would evacuate their villages to save their souls, honor and possessions.

There is also many testimonies that affirm that most of the Palestinian border villages were besieged from three directions and bombed to force the inhabitants to escape from the fourth direction which in most cases was towards Lebanon, Syria or Jordan. The Zionist false claim that the Palestinians left their lands in 1948 in compliance with the commands of their leaders was among the Zionist false propaganda to diminish worldwide solicitude for the Palestinian people especially the refugees. The writer, Tzvi,said, “Today every descendant knows that had it not been for the collective escape in 1948 the Israeli State would not have been established, even inside the division borders specified by the UN in 1947, the more so within the truce expanded borders specified at the end of the liberation war.” As for Count Folke Bernadotte , the UN Mediator, he examined the status of two specific villages that were subjected to the unjustifiable attack of Zionist organizations and how the inhabitants were forced to evacuate the villages then they were destroyed, as stated in his report submitted to the general assembly. Also, in a study by Prof. Israel Shahak about the evacuated villages, he said, “The truth concerning the Arab villages that existed before 1948, among the lands on which the Israeli State was established, is one of the most hidden secrets in the Israeli life, for there is hardly a report or a book or a pamphlet that discusses their number or location, which is a deliberate matter in order for it to be the accepted official myth, that talks about an empty country, educable in Israeli schools and can be related to visitors and tourists.” Prof. Israel Shahak has presented a list including the names of 385 villages that were destroyed and completely erased by Israel from among 475 villages that existed before 1948. During the last years many realties and documents from the Israeli army archives began to be disclosed to prove that hundreds of massacres were perpetrated and innocent Palestinians were murdered in cold blood. Prof. “Ytzhak”, the lecturer in Bar-llan University and the Military History Expert, has published his data and researches concerning more than ninety massacres perpetrated in Palestinian villages, among them are: Sa‘sa‘ village –destruction of 20 houses over their inhabitants and the murder of 60 persons; Hawsan village –slaughter of 12 men without any cause or resistance; Al-Dawayima village –murder and slaughter of 80 persons (Al-Khalil (Hebron) Mount);Ailbon village – shooting 12 youths under the eyes of a crowd of the surrendered inhabitants (in Al-Jalil) and another 17 youths from the Bedouins and the village inhabitants that were dispersed at different parts, it seems as if they were resisting; Majd Al-Kurum village – shooting 5 youths (in Al-Jalil); Ba‘nah and Deir Al-Asad villages – summoning the inhabitants then picking from them 4 youths, who were shot in front of everybody; Safsaf village – murder of 56 men after tying them and casting them into a well, rape of three women and a young girl 14 years old; Saliha village – killing 94 persons by knocking down their houses over them; Ayn Al-Zaytunvillage – murder of 32 persons then their watches were taken from their hands; Qisaryavillage – murder of whoever failed to escape; Al-Kabri village – the village was occupied and 7 youths were murdered and the rest of the inhabitants fled.

There is not the least doubt that the bloodbaths and massacres perpetrated by the Zionist organizations came within a programmed plan for expulsion. Shortly ago a document was published by the Israeli army intelligence agency in June 1948 that analyzes “The reasons behind the Arabs’ exit from Palestine”, which absolutely refutes the Zionist propaganda and states some of the reasons that were behind the Arabs’ exit from Palestine:

1-The hostile Jewish acts directly targeting the villages, the Arab cities, and the downfall of the big villages and the main cities constitute 55% from the reasons that resulted in the exit.

2-Operations carried by Jewish terrorist groups, like Etzel and Lehi, that were involved in terrorist acts in Yafa and Al-Jalil (Galilee), the city center and Al-Qods region and executed the “Deir-Yassin Massacre”. The influence they exercised constitute 15%.

3-Evil Insinuations and Psychological warfare and their influence played 2%.

4-The orders and warnings given to the inhabitants to evacuate the villages and desert them in order to enable the Arab forces to retrieve them. Its influence is 5%.

5-General panic and distrust of the power of the Arab forces. Its influence is 11%.

Concerning the huge dislocation, expulsion and destruction project committed against the Palestinian villages during the Six Day War and after it, we must point to the fact that Al-Jalil and the northern region were afflicted with the lion’s share in this project, as the writer Charles Caiman emphasizes the following facts in his article, “After the Disaster – the Arabs in the Israeli State – 1948 – 1950”:

1.     Among 73 villages under the jurisdiction of Safad 68 villages were destroyed.

2.      Among 51 villages under the jurisdiction of Akka 21 villages were destroyed.

3.    Among 23 villages under the jurisdiction of Tiberias 20 villages were destroyed.

4.      Among 19 villages under the jurisdiction of Baysan 17 villages were destroyed.

5.   Among 40 villages under the jurisdiction of Haifa 32 villages were destroyed.

6.     Among 23 villages under the jurisdiction of Nazareth 4 villages were destroyed.

Accordingly, the final outcome is that 162 Arab villages (and three Arab cities) were destroyed from among 229 villages under the above-mentioned judicial authorities alone.

Israel resumed the expulsion policy of the Arab from their villages even after its establishment and the domination of Zionist organizations and their gangs over the Arab villages and communities. The Iqrit and Bir‘imcase, which is still interacting within the lobbies of the Israeli Knesset, is a clear condemnation of the methods employed by the Israeli chiefs against the Arab inhabitants. It also embodies the depth of the Zionist–Israeli desire to ethnically cleanse the land from its Arab inhabitants. Facts show that the forced expulsion operations against the Palestinians continued even after signing the truce agreements in 1949 between “Israel” and the adjacent Arab countries. For the inhabitants of Al-Ghabisiyya were expelled in 1950, and it was proclaimed as a closed militarily Zone, and the same in Amqa, Kafr ‘Inan and Saffuriyya whose inhabitants were driven out in 1953. Also, the inhabitants of the two villages Kirad Al-Baqqara and Kirad Al-Ghannama in Hawla plain were expelled many times during 1948, 1951 and 1956. Arab An-Naqb were expelled and gathered in Sayaj region in 1957. In 1974, Israel expelled Arab Al Mafjar from their village near Khadirah and established on their lands a  power plant. In 1981, and after concluding the Camp David Accord between Israel and the Egyptian regime, thousands of Arabs were expelled from “Tall Al-Malh” region in An-Naqb (Negev) to the city center: to Al-Ladd, Ar-Ramlah and Al-Muthalth to construct military airports instead of the evacuated airports in Sinai. In 1987, the Israeli government instituted a committee to examine the “unlicensed” building in the Arab Palestinian environment, known as Marcovitch committee, which recommended in 1989 that it was necessary to demolish 11000 houses owned by Arabs under the pretext of “unlicensed” building.

These houses are distributed over 100 Arab communities “unacknowledged” by the Israeli authorities, and these authorities aim at dislodging its inhabitants. In 1995, the Israeli minister of Construction and Housing issued his orders of evacuating – expelling – the inhabitants of “Al-Hawashlah” village in An-Naqb and also Arab Al-Jahileen.” End of the article by the lawyer Wakim Wakim, Secretary of National Committee for the Defense of the Rights of the Uprooted in Israel.

The Zionistsalso resorted to enforce jural and civic procedures against the dislodged people and their villages; thus even after the stability of the military situations the authorities continued the adoption of all the practical jural measures – legislative and civic – to consolidate the actual state of their seizure of the evacuated Arab lands and villages, pushed to this course by the obsessive fear of the return of the uprooted Arabs to their villages. For this reason, the Israeli authorities enforced laws and regulations that indirectly dealt with the dislodged people and directly dealt with the evacuated lands and villages. It also activated the mandatory emergency systems, as the closure of zones militarily. On the other side, the Israeli authorities carried out their civic plans and established hundreds of Jewish settlements on the Arab lands and consequently the acceleration of the process of destroying the Arab villages in a desperate attempt to wipe them out of history and from the minds of their children who resorted to the neighboring Arab villages.

The UN defines those refugees in its documents as follows: “Every person who had his ordinary house in Palestine for two years before the conflict of 1948 and because of it he lost his house and the means of his living and restored in 1948 to one of the countries where the UNRWA  (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Far East) presents its services and is registered in the regions of its activities.” Over the years of the twentieth century, the Palestinian population was subjected to numerous major surges of dislodgment  and collective uprooting, the foremost were in 1948-47 during the Zionist-Arab war, when approximately 800 000 persons were uprooted. In 1967, during the Israeli-Arab war (about 400000 persons), and in 1991 during the second Gulf war about 350000 persons. Moreover, the administrative measures and policies imposed on the Palestinians in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 and 1967 (as the expropriation of the lands, the destruction of the houses, confiscation of nationality rights, exile, in addition to the governmental policies and the armed conflicts in many of the dispersed Palestinian communities caused the dislodgment of thousands other Palestinians. For the majority of the Palestinian refugees are those who were uprooted from their homes in 1948 along with their grandchildren (more than five millions) and they nearly present one-third of the Palestinian population in its entirety. If we added the refugees that were uprooted from their homes for the first time in 1967 and these dislodged refugees inside the “Green-Line” i.e., inside Israel, then nearly three-quarter of the Palestinian people were uprooted from their homes over the last half-century. Based on this, the Palestinian refugees are the biggest and oldest refugee groups in the world. Most of these refugees live in the occupied West Bank including Al-Qods (Jerusalem), and Gaza Strip about 100 miles away from their original homes and dwellings that are located at Israel, and they are forbidden to exercise their right of returning to them. The successive Israeli governments also oppose the return of the Palestinian refugees, for their desire to maintain and preserve Israel “as a Jewish State” with a landslide Jewish demography and a full Jewish mastery over the lands.

Since 1948 UN General Assembly has issued more than fifty resolutions that tackled “The Palestinian refugees problem”, the most important among them was resolution 194 issued in 11-12-1948, that was repeatedly indicated in the succeeding resolutions. This resolution says: “The refugees who wish to return to their country must be allowed to return, and to peacefully live with their neighbors on the nearest date possible. As for those who do not wish to return they must be compensated for their belongings and the destruction and wreckage that befell them, and this is according to the international law or the principles of justice, and responsible governments or authorities should be bound to do this.” On the basis of this resolution the International Conciliation Commission was instituted and was entrusted with facilitating the process of repatriation of refugees, safely settling them and paying them compensations.

Resolution 194 is considered the base for all the UN resolutions regarding the refugees. It is noteworthy that the UN acknowledgment of Israel as a nation is conditional upon Israel’s fulfillment of this resolution. But Israel has learned not to respect any of the resolutions issued by the international organizations unless they agree with its own interests and greed. When talking about the disaster that befell Palestine (the Six Day War) and the planned and organized expulsion of more than 80 % from the Palestinians of the occupied territories in 1948, we are talking about the worst disaster and calamity the ever afflicted a population in the universe during the second half of the last century. For occupation and expulsion were the outcome of a hostile activity of ideological racism, but only few do care. To know the international resolutions regarding Palestine, which Israel never respected, the Palestinian National Information Center under the Palestinian National Authority gives the following table that illustrates the resolutions and their most important circumstances and dates:

The Most Important International Resolutions Concerning Palestine

Ser No	No of Resolution	Date of Resolution	Reference	Subject of Resolution
1.	181 Term 2	29/11/1947	General Assembly	Division of Palestine into two Arab and Jewish States
2.	42	5/3/1948	Security Council	Adjuration of all Governments and peoples, including those in Palestine and around it, to carry out all the possible measures to prevent or minimize the tense turmoil running in Palestine.
3.	43	1/4/1948	Security Council	Call for arranging a truce between the Arab and Jewish Sects and Ceasing violence.
4.	44	1/4/1948	Security Council	Call for an exceptional General Assembly term to re-study the case of regime in Palestine.
5.	46	17/4/1948	Security Council	Call for all in Palestine to stop military operations and violent, terrorist and sabotage actions.
6.	48	23/4/1948	Security Council	Forming a truce-committee in Palestine
7.	185	26/4/1948	General Assembly	Request to Guardians Council to study the measures to safeguard Al-Qods (Jerusalem) and its population
8.	187	6/5/1948	General Assembly	Recommending the appointment of a special municipality delegate in Al-Qods (Jerusalem)
9.	189	14/5/1948	General Assembly	Appreciate Palestine Committee work and Select “Conte Barnadot” as an international mediator
10	186	14/5/1948	General Assembly	Appointment of International Mediator
11.	212	29/11/1948	General Assembly	Founding a fund special for the Palestinian Refugees
12.	194	11/12/1948	General Assembly	Forming a conciliation commission to report Jerusalem situation in a permanent international system. Repatriation and compensation of refugees.
13.	302	8/12/1949	General Assembly	The resolution states the formation of (UNRWA) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Far East.
14.	106	29/3/1955	Security Council	Condemnation of the Israeli Attack on Gaza considering that as a violation of cease-fire statements and the commitments of true agreement.
15.	2253	4/7/1967	General Assembly	A call for Israel to cancel the measures taken to alter the situation in Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
16.	2254	14/7/1967	General Assembly	Conveying regret towards the measures Israel had taken to change the situation in Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
17.	242	22/11/1967	Security Council	Resolving the principles of just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
18.	2443 (Term 23)	19121968	General Assembly	Forming a special committee to investigate in the Israeli practices that violate Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
19.	2546(Term24)	11121969	General Assembly	Condemning the violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and calling Israel to give up its suppressing practices.
20.	267	371969	Security Council	Re-calling Israel to cancel all the measures which alter the situation in Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
21.	271	1591969	Security Council	Condemning Israel for desecrating Al Aqsa Mosque and calling Israel to cancel all measures, which may alter the situation in Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
22.	2672(Term25)A,B,C,D	8121970	General Assembly	Recognition to Palestinian people the right of self-determination and re-call Israel to take immediate steps to repatriate the displaced.
23.	2851(Term26)	20121971	General Assembly	Calling Israel insistently to cancel all the measures neither to annex nor settle in the Occupied Territories and asking the special committee to continue its actions.
24.	3210	14101974	General Assembly	Inviting PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people to take part in the discussions of the General Assembly Concerning Palestine problem in its general sessions.
25.	3237	22111974	General Assembly	Granting PLO position of observer at the UN General Assembly.
26.	298	2591971	Security Council	Regret for the disregard of Israel to the UN resolutions relating to its measures for changing the situation in Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
27.	3414(Term30)	5121975	General Assembly	Situation in the Middle East.
28.	325	28101977	General Assembly	Illegal Israeli measures in the Occupied Territories.
29.	3220	25111977	General Assembly	Condemning the continuation of Israeli occupation of the Arab territories in 1967.
30.	3329	7121978	General Assembly	Condemnation of occupying the Arab Territories and call for a comprehensive settlement.
31.	3490 A,B,C	12121979	General Assembly	Condemning the continuous Israeli violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
32.	34136	14121979	General Assembly	The Right of the Arab peoples in permanent sovereignty over their lands and natural resources.
33.	446	2231979	Security Council	Settlement on the Palestinian Territories is unlawful.
34.	72 the seventh urgent exceptional Term	2971980	General Assembly	Call Israel to start its withdrawal before 15111980 from all the Arab Territories Occupied since June 1967.
35.	35110	5121980	General Assembly	Asserting the right of the Arab States and peoples whose territories are under the Israeli occupation to fully dominate their natural resources.
36.	35207	16121980	General Assembly	Condemning Insistently Israeli Aggression on Lebanon and the Palestinian People and Re-asserting absolute objection against Israeli Decision to annex Jerusalem.
37.	465	131980	Security Council	Calling Israel to dismantle the existing settlements and giving up planning and building settlements in the Occupied Territories including Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
38.	476	3061980	Security Council	Declaring the Nullification of the measures taken by Israel to alter the structure of Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
39.	478	2081980	Security Council	Stating that the principal law regarding Jerusalem is not recognized.
40.	36173	17121981	General Assembly	The measures Israel has taken to exploit the natural man resources in the Palestinian and Arab territories are illegal.
41.	47-E	2841982	General Assembly	Condemning Israel for its policy in the Occupied Territories and urging countries not to provide aid to Israel.
42.	3786 A,B,C,D,E	10121982	General Assembly	Regarding Palestine Problem.
43.	3917	23111984	General Assembly	Re-confirming the Right of Palestinian people in self-Determination and Independence.
44.	39136 A,B,C	14121984	General Assembly	The Situation In The Middle East
45.	39146	1984	General Assembly	The Situation In The Middle East

34.	72 the seventh urgent exceptional Term	2971980	General Assembly	Call Israel to start its withdrawal before 15111980 from all the Arab Territories Occupied since June 1967.
35.	35110	5121980	General Assembly	Asserting the right of the Arab States and peoples whose territories are under the Israeli occupation to fully dominate their natural resources.
36.	35207	16121980	General Assembly	Condemning Insistently Israeli Aggression on Lebanon and the Palestinian People and Re-asserting absolute objection against Israeli Decision to annex Jerusalem.
37.	465	131980	Security Council	Calling Israel to dismantle the existing settlements and giving up planning and building settlements in the Occupied Territories including Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
38.	476	3061980	Security Council	Declaring the Nullification of the measures taken by Israel to alter the structure of Al-Qods (Jerusalem).
39.	478	2081980	Security Council	Stating that the principal law regarding Jerusalem is not recognized.
40.	36173	17121981	General Assembly	The measures Israel has taken to exploit the natural man resources in the Palestinian and Arab territories are illegal.
41.	47-E	2841982	General Assembly	Condemning Israel for its policy in the Occupied Territories and urging countries not to provide aid to Israel.
42.	3786 A,B,C,D,E	10121982	General Assembly	Regarding Palestine Problem.
43.	3917	23111984	General Assembly	Re-confirming the Right of Palestinian people in self-Determination and Independence.
44.	39136 A,B,C	14121984	General Assembly	The Situation In The Middle East
45.	39146	1984	General Assembly	The Situation In The Middle East

This table that includes the UN resolutions regarding Palestine clearly shows the absolute defiance and disregard by which the Zionist occupying forces meet these resolutions and their persistence in assaulting the secure Palestinians on their lands and their sanctities. Resolution 2253 dated 4767, resolution 267 dated 3769, and also resolution 476 dated 3071980, all these resolutions disclose Israel’s determination to alter the situation in Al-Qods (Jerusalem) and Judaizes it and changes its Islamic Arabic features into Jewish to deceive the world in the future, namely during the present days we live, and make them believe that Al-Qods is Jewish and accordingly destroy Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa and build in its place the Temple, which is one of their religious fabricated myths.

In reply to these resolutions that Israel never respected, the UN issued new resolutions by which it condemned Israel’s defiance of orders and rebellion against international organizations and its persistence in changing the landmarks of Al-Qods; these condemning resolutions numbered: 2254 dated 14767, 271 dated 15969 and 298 dated 2591971, which were regretfully  restricted to Israel’s disregard of the UN resolutions. Also resolution 478 dated 2081980 that declares a non-recognition of the main law regarding the changes that Israel carried in Al-Qods.

Not only that, but there are also other resolutions that condemn Israel’s violation of human rights and unjustified aggression; these resolutions numbered: 2546, 271, 2851, 3220, 3490 and 20735. These resolutions range between condemnation for violating human rights which is an Israeli hobby, and condemnation of attacking the secure citizens or of the expansion of Israel by annexing the Palestinian territories and confiscating them. Also for desecrating Al-Aqsa Masjid the Muslim place of worship, which Jews have no right to enter it ever.

Quoting from the Palestinian National Information Center, the Palestinian refugees are mainly distributed over the border countries of their motherland, where the estimated number of the Palestinian people in 1998 was 7788 185 persons, 54% are living outside the Palestinian borders and cluster varyingly in other regions of the Arab world, but the majority among them live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, in other words in the neighboring regions due to the displacements from which they suffered in the year of the Disaster 1948 and the recourse of many among them to the Arab countries neighboring Palestine.

1-The Refugees in Jordan:the percentage of Palestinian refugees is (31.4%) from the total population of Jordan and more than (42%) from the total of all Palestinian refugees. The census of Palestinian refugees in Jordan is about one million refugees, 18% of them live in ten camps, the number of their inhabitants reached 280 000 as registered by UNRWA in Jordan. The number of refugees living in Jordan increased since the disaster, as their number reached 100 000 approximately by 1948; they are those who crossed Jordan River and lived in camps. After the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967 the new influx of displaced immigrants flowed in, whose number reached about 240 000.

2-The Refugees in Syria: the percentage of Palestinian refugees in Syria represents (10.2%) from the total registered refugees, and (2.3%) from the total population of Syria. More than (30%) from the total of Palestinian refugees in Syria live in these camps. Al-Yarmok camp that shelters more than 100 000 Palestinians is not counted in the list of official camps under the UNRWA, in spite of the spread of its different services in it. The refugees in Syria belong to the northern regions in Palestine especially in Safad and Haifa, and constitute (62%) from the total refugees, but the rest came from Yafa, Tiberias, Akka and other cities. In 1967 more than 100 000 persons migrated from Golan Heights – among them Palestinian refugees – to other Syrian parts. Moreover, thousands of Lebanese people resorted to Syria during the civil war that tore Lebanon in 1982.

3-The Refugees in Lebanon: some Palestinian refugees moved to Lebanon after the Disaster in 1948, and they constitute (10%) from the overall total of Palestinian refugees, and (10.5%) from the total Lebanese population. Now there are twelve Palestinian camps on the Lebanese lands and the refugees there suffer from many problems, the most important are: the weak infrastructure of the camps, overcrowdedness and unemployment. In Lebanon there is the highest percent of Palestinian refugees who live in extreme poverty and are registered in the program of straitened circumstances. Also, the refugees in Lebanon suffer from the absence of social and civil rights and the lack of the relief agency services in the domains of education, health, and social services. Also during the years that followed the civil war the UNRWA totally gave up offering the free educational insurance, which led to the emergence of some problems like school failure, the rise of illiteracy percentage which amounted to (48%) from the total camp population based on recent statistics, whereas the percent of university graduates sank to (4.2%).

In the end of discussing the Palestinian refugees problem we are to examine some of the details stated in the map of UNRWA operation zone. These details tackle the distribution of refugees registered with this agency, bearing the date 30 June 2001.

Region	In Camps	Outside Camps	Total
Jordan	287.951	1.351.767	1.639.718
Lebanon	214.728	168.245	382.973
Syria	109.466	282.185	391.651
West Bank	163.139	444.631	607.770
Gaza Strip	460.031	392.595	852.626
Regions Total	1.235.315	2.639.423	3.874.738

This table exhibits the dispersion of these refugees over different parts after one land gathered them in the past, namely Palestine. It also shows that the refugees outside the camps are twice those present inside, which means double suffering and miserable living conditions that day after day grow severer.

The Zionist terrorism is as old as its presence in the Middle East region and the greatest proof on this is the horrible bloodbaths and massacres which the Zionists have perpetrated and still perpetrate against the true landowners to force them to evacuate their land for the  new Jewish incomers.

The resources that the Palestinian National Information Center has used in the documentation of the Palestinian History:

Dr. Haitham Al-Kilany: the Arab Islamic Palestinian wars – Palestinian encyclopedia, fifth volume, 1990.

Dr. Hindy Al-Bidary – the Palestinian lands between Zionist claims and historical facts – Cairo, the Arab League Printing House, 1988.

Arab institute for practice and statistical researches. The demographic characteristics of the Palestinian people, Beirut, Anidâl publishing house, 1985.

Mustafa Ad-Dabagh, Our Country Palestine – first part, At-Tali‘ah publishing house, Beirut, 1965.

Araf Al-Araf, The Disaster, p. 952.Bayan Nuwayhad Al-Hût, Palestine: the Problem and the People, Al-Istiqlal publishing house, 1991.

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