Globally facing a deteriorating socio-economic crisis, Lebanon has the highest number of refugees per capita and per square kilometer.
Since the founding of Israel in 1948, the Arab League has shed light on the right of return of Palestinian refugees who have been forced to leave their homes.
In a statement commemorating UN World Refugee Day on Monday, Brock also emphasized the importance of ensuring the protection of refugees and migrants, as well as Palestinians as refugees, to compensate and restore property. He said it should be considered.
He also sought protection for the Palestinians in 1967, who were expelled from their homes by the illegal occupation of Israel in 1948.
Members of the Arab Regional Consultation Process on Immigration and Asylum, established in 1949 in light of the Zionist state’s forced disposition of Palestinians to give way to illegal Jewish settlers, are also UN Palestinian refugees. Emphasized the efforts of the Relief Business Agency. (UNRWA) In a joint statement.
The Arab League emphasizes the importance of protecting UNRWA from deliberate attacks by the occupied Israeli state and seeks to thwart its ability to provide the coveted support to Palestinians.
Between 1947 and 1949, at least 750,000 Palestinians from 1.9 million indigenous peoples were expelled from their lands by the Zionist militias who later founded Israel.
At that time, at least 450 towns and villages were depopulated, and millions of Palestinians were unable to leave their homes for decades. At that time, Israeli troops ethnically cleansed and destroyed at least 530 villages and cities, killing 15,000 Palestinians, according to Al Jazeera.
Since then, more than 70 massacres have been carried out by Israel.
According to 2020 figures from the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), there are up to 5.6 million Palestinian refugees, with at least 28.4% scattered in 58 UNRWA-run camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. doing.
Although Nakuba, also known as the “catastrophe,” is associated with 1948, Palestinians on the ground are still faced with continued seizure by Israeli troops.
Between 2009 and 2022, Israel demolished at least 8,413 Palestinian buildings, according to figures shared by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
At least 12,491 people were evacuated during the reported period.
The displacement and number of target structures in the first two months of this year are about the same as the 2021 average.
Regional refugee crisis
Meanwhile, the block has addressed the growing refugee crisis in the Arab world, which accepts almost half of the world’s refugee population.
The Arab League called for the need to resolve the root cause of the refugee crisis in accordance with international law.
It was noted that the increase in refugees is burdening the economic, social and health systems of countries accepting refugees and displaced persons.
Lebanon accepts 1.5 million Syrian refugees and at least 13,715 other nationalities.
Globally facing a deteriorating socio-economic crisis, Lebanon has the highest number of refugees per capita and per square kilometer.
Jordan is also home to more than 760,000 refugees, primarily from Syria, Iraq and Somalia.
