CTL speaks with activist Caoimhe Butterly who is in Lebanon working with Palestinians who have been forced from their homes in Nahr al-Bared because of the fighting between the Lebanese Army and militants from Fatah al-Islam. Butterly speaks about an event she witnessed where two Palestinians were killed and 27 injured when the Lebanese Army opened fire on a non-violent protest organized by Nahr al-Bared residents wishing to return to their homes.

Later in the program Ghassan Bannoura from the International Middle East Media Center reports on the announcement from the Egyptian and Israeli governments to allow thousands of Palestinians stranded at the Rafah border crossing to return to their homes in the Gaza Strip. Bannoura also reports on the Palestinian civil servants who have received part of their unpaid salaries as Israel releases part of the withheld tax money to the new Palestinian “emergency government.”

This program was produced by Crossing The Line for July 6, 2007.

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CKUT radio produced a retrospective on the 1967 Naksa (setback) for the 40th anniversary that aired on June 7, 2007. This is part five of that program.

Rana Abdulla, coordinator for refugee support for Palestinian families displaced from Iraq, speaks about the situation of the growing number of Palestinian refugees from the war in Iraq.

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Flashpoints Radio continue thier reporting from northern Lebanon, where the Lebanese army continues to besiege the densely-populated Nahr El-Bared refugee camp; also, Ali Abunimah talks about US-backed Palestinian counter-revolutionaries fomenting violence and suffering in Lebanon and Palestine; plus, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on Bush’s presidential finding to destabilize Iran through the CIA; JR reports back on the crucial Mumia abu-Jamal hearing in Philadelphia; and the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on May 24, 2007.

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This week on Crossing The Line, conservative estimates put the number of dead and injured at well over 100 in the Nahr al-bared Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli; thousands are fleeing their homes, and a humanitarian crisis that already is unbearable grows worse. Today we’ll get two reports on the current crisis in Lebanon.

Then later in the podcast our weekly commentary by Mumia abu-Jamal and The War’s Toll compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent News Service.

This program was produced by Crossing The Line.

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The Right of Return of Palestinian refugees is enshrined in international law. One of the core rights in international law is the obligation to respect and implement the right of return of Palestinian refugees. This right, although reaffirmed in UNGA Resolution 194 of November 12, 1948, is far older than that Resolution, and is not dependent on that Resolution for its binding nature. The right of refugees or displaced persons to return to their places of origin is firmly rooted in international humanitarian law/laws of war, the laws of nationality and state succession, and international human rights law . In particular, this right has been recognized and implemented in the refugee context under human rights law principles all over the world in situations of mass refugee flows, and has been strengthened, not weakened, by state practice in the last forty years. We should note here that Israel was accepted as a member state of the UN on condition that it accept the Right of Return Resolution 194. The Right of Return can not be waived or negotiated away as PM Olmert, and every Israeli government before him, has sought to do.

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Nancy Murray to our program. Dr. Murray has worked as an educator and human rights activist in the UK, Kenya, and the US. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Oxford University; has written on civil and human rights issues; and serves on the editorial committee of the journal Race & Class. She was the co-founder and director of the Middle East Justice Network from 1989 to 1995, and authored a book on Palestinians: Life Under Occupation (1991).

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine on WZBC Boston.

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Hundreds of thousands of stateless Palestinian refugees reside in Lebanon scattered in impoverished refugee camps throughout the country, originally displaced through the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Without the right to work in over 70 professions, barred from owning property and legally defined as foreigners, Palestinians live in Lebanon as second-class citizens without basic social or political rights.

This radio documentary was produced by Sawsan Kalache, Mohamed Shublaq & Stefan Christoff of the Independent Media Center of Beirut.

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