Palestinian Refugees – Challenges of Repatriation and Development

Keywords: Middle East, Palestine, English, book, conflict, refugee, development, guide, print, indicator

“Palestinian Refugees” suffers the twin misfortunes of being both the largest refugee population in the world, and one of the oldest. The refugee issue traces its origins to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948,

an event that was accompanied by the forced displacement of some three quarters of a million of Palestinian Arabs from their homes within what had become the territory of the new Jewish state.

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