https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ99XJqAbxw
Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has exceeded the 1-year mark, and it has extended its aggressive and hostile acts to Lebanon, with the participation of the United States and complicity of other colonial states.
These states claim the aggression is justified in order to ensure the return of Israeli colonizers to the northern areas of Palestine, that Zionist forces ethnically cleansed and colonized prior to and during the Nakba.
Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, who today number 9.17 million and account for 66 percent of the Palestinian people, have been denied their right of return. Not only has Palestinian return been denied for over 76 years, but they have also experience additional repeated and multiple forced displacement.
Forced Displacement and transfer is one pillar of Israel’s system of domination, which also includes colonization and apartheid applied over all of Mandatory Palestine.
Again, this is made possible and even supported by Israel’s colonial allies, that have not only provided the Israeli regime with impunity but also military, financial and political backing.
In this context, it becomes essential that the focus remains on the root causes, one of which is the forced displacement and transfer of Palestinians, their inalienable right of return and the legal and practical measures and steps to ensure fulfillment of that right.
Panelists include:
Lubnah Shomali, AFA and Advocacy Unit Manager, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights, Palestine
Heidar Abu Ghosh, survivor from Naksa
Hanna Kawas, Nakba and Naksa survivor
Khaled Mouammar, Nakba survivor