UPDATE:Campaign for the Defense of Palestinian Refugee Rights

Community Mobilization:
"No Peace Without the Right of Return"

Encouraged by - and always doubtful of -the firmness of the official Palestinian negotiating position, refugees in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip have embraced the new al- Aqsa intifada and shaped its public speech and demands: full Palestinian sovereignty over the 1967 occupied Palestinian lands including eastern Jerusalem and al-Haram al-Sharif, and recognition and implementation of the refugees' right of return, restitution and compensation according to international law as affirmed in UN Resolution 194. The new Palestinian vision of return is strong and powerful and no longer a vague dream.

In the 1967 occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the demand for recognition and implementation of Palestinian refugees' right ofreturn has survived the nights of the al-Aqsa intifada during which Palestinian refugee camps have been shelled by Israeli tanks and helicopters. This was emphasized by the more than one hundred participants - representatives of grass-roots organizations, unions, NGOs, political parties, PA and PLO institutions - at the National Conference for the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees convened at the Rashad al-Shawwa Center in Gaza (8-1-2001).

Since then, the Follow-up Committee of National and Islamic Forces and refugee community organizations have organized numerous local Right-of-Return Marches and Rallies involving tens of thousands of persons. Among those facilitated by BADIL have been a Right-of Return March in Bethlehem (9-1-2001), a Right-of Return Rally in 'Aida Refugee Camp/ Bethlehem (13-1-2001), and "Al-Awda Week" organized in the Nablus area by the Palestinian National Institutions and the BADIL Friends Forum-Northern West Bank (5 - 12 February 2001).

This includes a photo exhibition ("Refugees and the al-Aqsa Intifada") and "Al-Awda Tent" in al-Far'ah Refugee Camp/Nablus. Other public events  lanned and prepared for February and March (Awda March/Nur Shams Refugee Camp; Right-of-Return Rally/al-Fawwar Refugee Camp) had to be cancelled due to increasing Israeli restrictions on freedom of movement, curfews, and danger to public security. И на последок ссылкой поделюсь! http://all-steroid.com - стероиды, фармакология любая под заказ. Перейдете на сайт, там все предельно понятно, отзывы отличные, ГАРАНТИРУЮ!!

World Wide Right-of-Return Marches and Rallies will again be launched by the Al- Awda network on 7 April 2001 on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre (9 April 1948) and all other massacres committed against the Palestinian people by the Zionist forces and the governments of the state of Israel. Rallies and marches will be held in: New York/ USA; Vancouver/Canada; Sidney, Melbourne and Perth/Australia; Madrid/Spain; Amsterdam/ Netherlands and other European capitals; Osaka/ Japan, Malaysia and Hong Kong, as well as in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

In Palestine/Israel, the call for 7 April right of-return marches and rallies has been endorsed by the Union of Youth Activity Centers, the Popular Committees, the Refugee Affairs' Follow up Committee-Southern West Bank, the Committee for the Defense of the Right of Return and Yafa Cultural Center/Balata Refugee Camp (Nablus), the National Society for the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel, BADIL Resource Center, and the Follow-up Committee of National and Islamic Forces. The central rally of internally displaced Palestinians will be held in Jaffa. As Israel's policy of military closures and restriction of movement will prevent organization of a central march/rally in the 1967 occupied territories, Palestinian refugees aim to organize decentralized rallies and right-of-return events in the major towns and camps of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

OATH OF RETURN Name ___________ evicted from ___________   currently residing in _____________ We, who were forcefully evicted from our homeland Palestine in 1948 by the international and Arab collusion with the brutal Zionist gangs; we whose property was confiscated and whose villages and towns were destroyed; we, who have lived in exile for 52 years, Swear to God the Almighty and Promise to Our Martyrs That WE WILL NOT compromise our right to return to our homes, villages, and towns, and that we will not accept compensation as a substitute to this right, which is an individual and collective right, a political right, and a right enshrined in international law and human rights conventions. We also reject all forms of re-settlement and integration outside our homes aimed at replacing our right of return. Our right of return is non-negotiable and not a subject of opinion polls. Signature __________________