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Palestine and World Refugee Week
RAMZY BAROUD writes how Palestinians, some of the most overlooked refugees in the world, keep their right of return alive through hope and resistance
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian paramedic Mohammed al-Jadili, 36, shot by Israel during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on Friday June 7

THE United Nations World Refugee Week, observed annually in June, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence.”

It should also be an opportunity for the international community to truly understand and actively work towards finding a sustainable remedy to forced displacement, for no woman, man or child should be forced to endure such gruelling, shattering and humiliating experience in the first place.

Palestinians who have withstood the degradation of exile for over 70 years embody the harshness of this collective experience more than any other group.

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