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As a group of UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations working to support the rights and welfare of the Palestinian people, we are gravely concerned by the Israeli Government’s threat to annex more Palestinian land. The UK government has, at times, asserted that annexation ‘could not pass unchallenged’. …
The 20th of June marks World Refugee Day. This is an international day used to honour refugees and recognise their struggles and humanity. Interpal have worked with Palestinian refugees for over 25 years. We acknowledge their humanity and act for them everyday. The Palestinian refugee crisis is the longest running…
In 1948, over 750,000 Palestinian men, women and children were expelled from their homes and forced to live as refugees in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. 72 years later, the Palestinian refugee population has grown to more than 5 million. Palestinians who experienced the Nakba…
In 2012, a UN report warned that the Gaza Strip would be “unliveable” by 2020. Since the report, Gaza’s 2 million residents have experienced eight more years of brutal siege and two major military assaults, killing and injuring thousands of people. We are six months in to 2020, and more…
June 5th marks Naksa Day, otherwise known as ‘the setback’. This day marks the defeat of Arab nations during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the beginning of the military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It has been 53 years since Palestinians suffered this setback and Israel’s…