MADRID 11 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The commissioner general of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has announced that the organization has managed to extract thousands of documents relating to Palestinian refugee families from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
“The preservation of these archives is essential to protect the rights of Palestinian refugees provided for in International Law,” Lazzarini highlighted in a message published on the X social network.
These archives have been in the custody of UNRWA for 75 years “thanks to the work of UNRWA teams” that preserve “the identity and history” of Palestinian refugees, he highlighted. They have now been moved to a safe place and digitized.
“The time has come for a peaceful diplomatic solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that includes once and for all the plight of Palestinian refugees,” Lazzarini noted.
International Law provides that people expelled from their places of origin in the framework of an armed conflict and their descendants have the inalienable right of return.
In the case of the Palestinian population, it is estimated that there are around six million people displaced after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, or as a consequence of successive wars (1967 and 1973). The majority live in Jordan, Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.