Why do Palestinian refugees have a separate refugee agency?

Throughout the world in the 1940s and 1950s (when the Palestinians became refugees )millions and millions of refugees were rehabilitated in the countries that had given them shelter.

600,000 Chineses fled to Hong Kong in 1949
It was tough, it was tragic, but they moved on.

14 million Hindu and Muslim refugees found shelter in India and Pakistan, respectively, following partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
It was tough, it was tragic, but they moved on.

3.1 million fled North Korea to South Korea in the 1950-1953 conflict.
It was tough, it was tragic, but they moved on.

800,000 Jews had to flee Arab countries of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
It was tough, it was tragic but they moved on.

10 million ethnic Germans were brutally expelled from Eastern Europe when the borders were redrawn, not because they were Nazis, just because they belonged to the ethnic group that had lost the war. They had lived there for centuries.
These ethnic German refugees also wanted to return to their birthplaces. They did not want to return under foreign rule meaning they wanted Germany to recapture these territories forcefully.
All of Germany’s political leaders paid lip service to the refugee’s demands and public ally supported them but, in reality, did nothing to advance them. Germany focussed on the refugee’s full integration into Germany and pursued wealth redistribution to achieve this. By the early 1960s, the voices demanding a return had all but disappeared.
The German Government realised that to pursue the refugee’s desire to return to their birthplace would have resulted in further conflict and war.
It was tough, it was tragic, but they moved on.

700,000 Palestinians were expelled from the Mandate in 1948.
It was tough, it was tragic but it is time to MOVE ON.

Can't wait for the day some neo-pagan Italian Romans displace modern Britishers from ancient Roman territories and decide the Britishers should resettle nicely in 'new homes' in Greenland or somewhere

Agree @MNHQ -- whether or not this poster is known to you as a real person, their time and energy here suggests they're playing a different role at least this once.

@Kindatired

To the Palestinians, the ‘right of return’ means to Israel.
The Israelis always thought this was a bargaining chip. They found out in 2000 and 2008, it wasn’t.
The Palestinians are not using the ‘right of return’ to mean Gaza or the West Bank.
No wonder you were confused. Hope that has cleared it up.
Palestinians do not have a ‘right to return’ to Israel.

What religious war? The oil war and land grab?
People want to go home. That's all. Home where their families lived for centuries, however non-westernly.

No map that will copy.
The pro- Israeli posters here think forced displacement is a good idea for the Palestinians but once the 1967 borders are mentioned maybe it’s not so much good

@Oodiks The milk of human kindness.

@Alwayslookonthe
Where do Palestinians think they have the ‘right to return’ to?
The 1967 boundaries.Those displaced from the land designated as Israel should be compensated adequately for their losses.

Glad you’re reading though.

You mean stating that the Palestinians do not have the ‘right of return’. No definitely not misinformation.
Just clearing up the myth that is so often repeated.

Perhaps you are misinterpreting. What do you think the ‘right of return’ means?
Where do Palestinians think they have the ‘right to return’ to?

What's sinister about wishing that Palestinian refugees, like all others, are given the chance to resettle elsewhere?
Voluntary resettlement is acceptable but forced displacement of a population is a feature of genocide. It seems from your posts that you would like them to integrate locally and hand over the Palestinian Territories to the Israelis. But maybe we’re misinterpreting your posts.

Because I have read them all and none of them give the Palestinians ‘the right to return’.
Perhaps you don’t feel confident in choosing one to discuss, which is okay. However, please don’t send me a link and ask me to read them. I have. I can confidently say that there is no International law that requires Israel to allow Palestinians and their descendants to return to Israel.

I’m out. Other Mumsnetters at least will read the links and sources and I am sure will see exactly what you have been up to here.

I linked you to them!
Tell me, what is the point of posting links for you to read that answer your questions and then you ignore the link or pretend they don’t say what they say. And then five posts later you ask the same question or say the same myths that I have already debunked.

This is like shouting into the wind.

Name one that gives them the ‘right to return’.

Repeating myths from propaganda doesn’t make them true. You are 100% incorrect.

UN resolutions are international agreements, the UN charters, conventions and UNSC resolutions are legally binding international agreements.

To be absolutely clear, there is no International law that requires Israel to allow Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to Israel. No treaties or binding UN resolutions were violated by Israel's expulsion (some fled) of Palestinians during the 1948 conflict and none provide a right to return for Palestinian refugees.