ABSTRACT
For close to six decades Palestinian refugees have been denied critical aspects of international protection, and remain today without a durable solution to their condition. Palestinians comprise one of the largest and longest-standing refugee, or “refugee-like’’ populations in the world – it is estimated that approximately two in five refugees in the world are Palestinian.1 Palestinians as a nationally-identifiable population comprise the largest global population of refugees, internally displaced, and stateless persons. As this chapter will discuss, their situation as refugees is both similar in some aspects, and unique in other critical aspects, as compared to other global refugee populations.
