Palestine-Refugees Dilemma
Under such conditions that some 60 years pass ever since wretched occupation of Palestine and seizing absolute right of a nation in deciding its fate, having a country, and enjoying territorial integrity, catastrophic aftermaths of that sad event are still nightmare of any typical Palestinian.

Over three fourths of the Palestinians are living in exile today, posing the mankind's greatest ever refugee and asylum problem, in need of a strong international will, and a fundamental and grassroot solution.

STATISTICS AND FACTS
In the year 1948 the illegitimate Israeli government was established based on the logic of gun points' power, some 78% of Palestine's historic lands were seized overnight, making homeless some 85% of the residents of the Palestinian inhabited parts of that land.

Those people lost their homes and their lands on that date, when 15,000 of their fellow citizens were brutally massacred in one of contemporary history's most bloody acts of genocide.

Also, as an aftermath of the humiliating 1967 War and the occupation of a vaster part of Palestine by the Zionists, some 950,000 more Palestinians became homeless, while due to illegal Zionist townships' construction in Palestinian districts at least 57,000 Palestinians lost their properties in various cities of the West Bank during the two decades after that war.

In more recent history, the construction of the most racist separation wall by Tel Aviv led to homelessness of over 15,000 Palestinians who were as a result detached from either their farms, or their businesses, or even their close family members.

There seems to be no end to such usurper policies and Israel's never ending quench for seizing more and more lands of the Palestinians continues parallel to systematized genocide of that defenseless and most oppressed nation, either under the most irrational years' long siege of Gaza, or due to Western boycotts for having chosen Hamas as their political representative.

The Palestinians are thus under constant direct, or indirect pressure to abandon their ancestral homes and lands and the number of Palestinian refugees and political asylums keep on increasing incessantly.

Based on statistics provided by the Palestinian Statistics Organization, in the year 2007 there were over seven million Palestinian refugees living in various countries, whose number is expected to increase to 12 million by the year 2026.

Presently only some 4.5 million of those homeless Palestinians have filed applications for receiving assistance from the UN fund commissioned to assist the Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.

Over 750,000 of the refugees receiving relief aides from UNRWA live in the West Bank refugee camps and some one million of them reside in Gaza Strip.

Thus, over 2.5 million of the Palestinian refugees are currently living in Palestinian lands that were occupied in 1967, while Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are hosts to a lot larger portions of Palestinian refugees, who are denied the right to return to their occupied motherland!
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