Refugees

Blog Post Palestinian Refugees Petition Israeli Supreme Court against Laws Banning UNRWA

Israel’s ban on UNRWA is due to take effect in a week. Palestinian refugees say impact will be catastrophic.

Blog Post Is There a Legal Basis for Israel’s UNRWA Ban?

Legal experts explain why Israel’s ban on UNRWA is on shaky legal ground.

Feature Story As UNRWA Shutters Its Jerusalem Office under Intensifying Israeli Pressure, Palestinians Reflect on UNRWA’s Role

Israel seems to have declared war on UNRWA. How would its permanent closure affect Palestinian Jerusalemites?

Screenshot of a film about the Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah
Video Sheikh Jarrah

Views from Sheikh Jarrah

Screenshot from the YouTube video, “What’s The Story? Yacoub Ahmad Odeh in Lifta”
Video What’s the Story? Yacoub Ahmad Odeh in Lifta

“We lived here like kings”: Yacoub Ahmad Odeh fights Israeli plans to turn the depopulated village of Lifta into a new Jewish settlement.

Journal Article Remembering Lifta: One Family’s Experience of Repeated Displacements, Imprisonment, and Resilience

A woman recalls her family leaving Lifta in 1948 in search of safety. But there was none to be had.

Bio Sami Hadawi

A foremost authority on Palestinian land ownership before 1948 who provided future generations with crucial documentation on the Nakba and Palestinian refugees

Photo Album 1948 and Beyond: The Ongoing Palestinian Displacement

A pictorial journey of Palestinian displacement over generations

Personal Story On Wings of Memory: Schmidt’s Girls School—Jerusalem’s Star School

The author recalls her happy years attending Schmidt’s School, before the Nakba, her brief visit years later, and what it meant to her.