12/09/2023
“The 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) coincides with 75 years of the Ongoing Nakba - ongoing displacement, dispossession, and the denial of the Palestinian people’s rights to self-determination and return by the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime. Even now, as the UDHR is being celebrated, Israel is attempting another mass displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, right under the complicit eyes of the international community.
In tandem with the UDHR, 75 years ago the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) also adopted Resolution 194 which reaffirms the right of return of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, and has yet to be implemented.
Despite its codification as a violation of humanitarian law in the Geneva Conventions, and as both a war crime and a crime against humanity in the Rome Statute, forcible transfer remains one of the main pillars of the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime’s strategy to execute its Zionist project of “Maximum of Palestinian land with the minimum of Palestinians”. The current Israeli genocidal war against the Gaza Strip has resulted in the killing of over 17,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and in the displacement of 1.9 million Palestinians (over 85 percent of the population), the vast majority of them 1948 refugees and their descendants. This is the largest wave of Palestinian displacement since the Nakba…”
75 Years of International Complicity, Ongoing Nakba, and Israeli Genocide in the Gaza Strip The 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) coincides with 75 years of the Ongoing Nakba - ongoing displacement, dispossession, and the denial of the Palestinian peoples rights to...
