This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Right to Return has a solid legal basis:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 13 affirms: "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and return to his country."
- The International Convention on Civil and Political Rights [Article 12(4)], states: "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his own country."
There are approximately 7.3 million Palestinian refugees, equivalent to about 70% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 10.7 million worldwide.
The breakdown of the refugee population is as follows:
Palestinians displaced with the creation of Israel in 1948, who now number 6 million, many of whom have been living since then in 59 U.N.-run refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip parts of Palestine.
Palestinian citizens of Israel who were internally displaced in 1948 and now number 355,000 but continue to be denied the right to return to their homes and villages.
Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip who fled when Israel occupied those areas in 1967 and now number 835,000.
60,000 Palestinians who became internally displaced in the West Bank as a result of home demolitions, revocation of residency rights, construction of Israel’s Annexation/Apartheid Wall, and construction of illegal colonies on stolen Palestinian owned-land.
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