in the face ongoing Israeli attempts to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and to erase the Palestinian refugee issue. While addressing a number of laws, practices, and methods implemented by the Israeli regime against displaced Palestinians with the aim to deny their right to reparations, this paper should not be considered comprehensive. It highlights many of the policies of denial of return, restitution and compensation in order to provide a broad understanding of the impact of these practices as mechanisms of forced population transfer and ethnic cleansing, and eventually as a key element of Israel’s denial of self-determination of the Palestinian people. The methods and practices detailed in the paper are by no means exhaustive. This paper concludes with a set of recommendations directed at the international community, encouraging international institutions as well as third states to pressure Israel into compliance and suggesting specific actions and policies these countries, and the international community more broadly, could adopt for this purpose and in order to advance a just and durable peace that takes into account the rights of the Palestinian people. 10