Palestinian rights

The law already decided.

 

Not activists. Not protesters. Not opinion columns. The institutions that govern how nations treat people made their ruling. This is the record.

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Refugee Status

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In 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes in a single year.

Under the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Palestinian refugee status passes to descendants — not by choice, but by legal recognition that displacement without resolution does not expire. It compounds.

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Over 5.9 million Palestinians are registered refugees today. The doors their grandparents locked are still locked. The keys still exist.

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The Right to Return

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UN General Assembly Resolution 194 was passed in 1948. It affirms that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their homes. It has been reaffirmed more than 130 times. It has not been implemented once.

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International Law and Occupation

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The Fourth Geneva Convention is not a suggestion.

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It governs what occupying powers are permitted to do to civilian populations. It prohibits:

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• collective punishment

• forced displacement

• annexation of occupied territory

• the transfer of an occupying power’s civilian population into occupied land

 

These are not interpretations. They are the text of the law. They are being violated in documented, photographed, filmed detail every day.

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Settlement Expansion

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The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. The United Nations Security Council has affirmed this in multiple resolutions.

Settlement expansion has accelerated regardless.

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The ICJ Advisory Opinion — 2024

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In July 2024, the International Court of Justice — the highest legal body in the world — issued its advisory opinion.

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Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful under international law. It must end.

That is the finding of the institution the world built to make exactly this determination.

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The Right to Self‑Determination

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International law is unambiguous: all peoples have the right to determine their own political future — their governance, their economy, their culture, their identity.

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The United Nations has affirmed Palestinian self‑determination in resolution after resolution. It remains unrealized.

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What the Law Says and What Happens

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The law is not complicated. The gap between what it requires and what Palestinians experience daily is not a gray area.

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It is documented. Ruled upon. Photographed. Filmed. Witnessed. And largely ignored by the governments that wrote the rules.

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That gap is what YUMA exists inside of. Not as a legal argument. As a lived reality inherited from a father’s village. As a brand built because silence is also a choice.

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