LONDON, June 20, 2010 (WAFA)-   The Palestinian Return Center (PRC) stated on the international refugee day, that t the Palestinian refugees represent the longest and largest unresolved refugee crises in modern history. Even after six decades their condition is extremely precarious and unique.

PRC noted “Three quarters of a million Palestinians were expelled in 1948 from their lands, a catastrophe which Palestinians call the Nakba. Palestinians fled to neighbouring countries, some fled to different parts of the world as far away as Argentina and Bolivia.”

The international community mandated the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) to provide humanitarian relief only to those that were expelled in 1948. The agency now provides social, educational and economic assistance for refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.

The 4.8 million UNRWA registered refugees does not take into account the 400,000 that fled in 1967, Palestinians in diasporas, new refugees from Israel’s house demolition policies and wars.

The refugees face many different challenges; economic, social and existential. They are united by a deep desire to return to their land which we’ve discovered through our parliamentary delegations to camps and the survey which PRC has carried out in the refugee camps. They are also united by the failure of the international community to uphold their basic human right to return to their land.