For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary of their exodus, an action stemming from the UN's partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.
For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary of their exodus -- an action stemming from the UN's partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.
He said "the catastrophe to the Palestinian people is still ongoing:" The Palestinians still don't have an independent state, and they don't have the right to return to their homes as called for in a General Assembly resolution adopted in December 1948. The fate of these refugees and their descendants -- estimated at over 5 million across the Middle East -- remains a major disputed issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel rejects demands for a mass return of refugees to long-lost homes, saying it would threaten the country's Jewish character.
UN recognition as a state enabled the Palestinians to join treaties, take cases against Israel's occupation to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, which is the UN's highest tribunal, and in 2019 to chair the Group of 77, the UN coalition of 134 mainly developing nations and China, he said.
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