· · · · · implementing durable solutions. UNRWA, UNHCR, the UNCCP, UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and other relevant bodies should immediately clarify their respective mandates in order to coordinate effective temporary protection for all Palestinian refugees; Addressing the regular and chronic shortfall in the core budget of UNRWA; a scenario which results from the non-mandatory status of contributions to the agency’s general budget from member states. This issue must be treated as a top priority for both the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the Secretary-General. Donor states must increase the quantity and stability of financial contributions both to UNRWA emergency appeals and to the General Fund, factoring in the annual growth of the refugee population and their needs. Donor states must take all meaningful and practical measures to bring an end to conditional funding and delegitimization tactics of third states, particularly the US and those of the EU, that target UNRWA. Establishing a comprehensive registration system for Palestinian refugees and IDPs. The UN should coordinate a comprehensive registration system for ensuring protection, crafting durable solutions and fulfilling reparations. Such a system should include all categories of Palestinian refugees and IDPs, and recognize instances of multiple displacement; Incorporating Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention into the national legislation of those states who are signatories to the Convention, and ensuring correct interpretation and application of Article 1D to Palestinian refugee asylum cases in-line with contemporary scholarly opinion on the subject; Utilizing the League of Arab States’ regional mechanisms for refugee protection. The LAS should implement existing regional instruments (1965 Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians, 1992 Cairo Declaration) and strengthen their monitoring mechanisms; Improving the UN, intergovernmental and international organizations’ response mechanisms to Israeli policies of displacement and transfer throughout all of Mandatory Palestine by focusing efforts not only on short-term emergency and humanitarian aid, but also on preventing forced displacement though the filling of protection gaps concerning victims medium and long-term needs. 3. Facilitate and ensure the participation and engagement of the Palestinian people, particularly refugees and IDPs, in crafting solutions, and bring an end to all actions that impede the political participation of the Palestinian people: Bringing an end to all actions that obstruct the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation from the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime or impede on the political participation of the Palestinian people, especially Palestinian refugee youth, requires: · xx States, UN bodies and agencies and international civil society organizations to take

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