Arafat rejected $30 billion for refugee relocation, aide says

By Ibrahim Barzak, The Associated Press, Gaza City

Transcribed from the clipping

“GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected an American plan to set up a $30 billion international fund to resettle refugees, a top Palestinian official said Thursday. Salim Zanoun, chairman of the PLO Central Council, said the offer came during last month’s summit at the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington… The Palestinians are demanding that millions of refugees be allowed to return to their former homes in what is now Israel… Israel is willing to allow a few thousand Palestinian refugees to be reunited with their families in Israel. The others would settle in a Palestinian state or in countries where they now live. Palestinians fled during the 1948 war that followed Israel’s creation. They were confined to refugee camps in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, where many still live with their descendants.”

Photograph caption

“Yasser Arafat won’t negotiate on refugees.”

Context added by this archive

Attributed to an aide, and it carries the relocation answer inside it.

Cite this item

"Arafat rejected $30 billion for refugee relocation, aide says," Indianapolis Star, 11 August 2000. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2000-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2000-001

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