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About The Association
The Association
for the Defense of the Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Israel works to research and
defend the rights of the internally displaced, approximately 250,000
Palestinian citizens of Israel, or around one quarter of
the Palestinian-Israeli population. The organization's main
achievement has been placing the rights of the uprooted at the
forefront of the agenda of the Palestinian minority in Israel. In 1995, the organization
brought together 280 representatives of 30 destroyed villages in a
forum to let their voices be heard in unison.
Goal
The return of
displaced Palestinians within the Green Line to their villages and
homes which they were expelled from, in accordance with UN resolution
194.
Main
Activities
- Sponsor and organize
Land Day events in the uprooted villages each year;
- Hold lectures and
panel discussions;
- Work in schools,
libraries, universities, and through the media;
- On the local and
national level the committee works to clean up the cemeteries
and restore destroyed mosques and churches;
- Supports research on
uprooted and destroyed villages since 1948;
- Collects and files
documents, aerial pictures, and maps of uprooted and destroyed
villages;
- Collects statistics
and information on displaced persons in Israel, their properties,
where they currently reside, and where, exactly, they came from.
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