WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The ongoing injustice against Palestinian refugees, and their right of return to their historic homeland, lies at the heart of the modern story of the Palestinian people and their struggle against Zionism. The issue of Palestinian refugees is often said to be intractable, but this supposedly impossible issue is about the right of a people to return to their homes after almost a century of forced displacement and dispossession. Here are four key things you need to know:
01 The right of return for Palestinian refugees to their historic homeland lies at the heart of the modern story of the Palestinian people and their struggle against Zionism
03 The birth of the Palestinian refugee question was because of the active campaign of forced displacement to ensure the establishment of a Jewish state in historic Palestine 02 The right of return refers to the principle that Palestinian refugees have a right to return to the land and property that they themselves or their forebears were forced to leave as a result of the establishment of the state of Israel
04 The number of Palestinian refugees and their descendants today stands at around 6 million, still dispersed across historic Palestine, the surrounding region, and elsewhere in the world
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