ABSTRACT
The abandonment of the Palestinian Refugees has transpired through parallel abandonment of international law. An unwillingness by the international community to see its legal pronouncements upheld has meant that where the Palestinian Refugees are concerned, few laws hold, be they refugee law, human rights law, or humanitarian law. While the Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria receive material assistance from the international community through United Nations Relief and Works Agency, their level of integration into host States has been hampered by the unwillingness of these States to allow Palestinians to settle permanently. By comparison, Palestinians in Arab States have faired much better then those under Israeli occupation. The conditions of Palestinian Refugees in exile remain overall insecure, in part due to their lack of standing as subjects of international law. In the language of international refugee law, the Palestinian Refugees slowly lost their ‘international protection’, which had nominally been mandated to the Conciliation Commission.
