A Just Solution For the Palestinians
The United Nations has been struggling to deal with the situation of the Palestinian refugees since the creation of the State of Israel on the Arab land. Palestine, at the end of World War II in 1948, was composed of 90 percent of Arab population. It is more than sixty years that the stateless Palestinian people have been living as refugees without a home to go back to. They are living in unbearable conditions in camps and ghettoes in the small areas of the West Bank and Ghaza. Today, young Garzans conduct an event to remember 1948 exodus. About 56.4 percent of the Palestinians are young people under the age of 19. In Ghaza alone, 75.6 percent of the population are children and youth under 30 years old. They have very little to look forward to in the future, even if they survive the continuing cycles of violence where they live. The illegal occupation of Palestine by the Israeli force has recently been intensified. The Palestinian refugees continue to suffer hardships and face the danger of being killed or detained on a daily basis. Members of the UN Security Council continue to give warning to Israel about the continuous violation of human rights and the unprecedented breaches of international humanitarian law. The Arab peace initiative of 2002 still has to be accepted by the three sides; the Israeli, Hamas and Fatah. The ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council on the Middle East met on 11 May to reaffirm a common position on the peace process after the Gaza crisis and Israel elections. They want to see that talks be resumed as soon as possible. Russian Federation made a proposal at the meeting to convene an international conference on the peace process in Moscow later this year. It is my hope that the meeting of President Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel on 18 May will succeed in stopping the construction of settlements in the West Bank and the imposition of the blockade in Gaza in order to create an “enabling environment for negotiations” to bring about a just solution for the Palestinian and to end the conflict in the area.
