This is the final absorption of the refugee into nation-state logic, erasing the refugee’s legal and political status in favor of coerced assimilation into states that are themselves subordinated in the imperial hierarchy. The transfer of services to host states is an abandonment, a reconfiguration of oppression from donor regimes to other host state entities, enabling the diffusion of accountability and violations of Resolution 302 and Resolution 194. Palestinian refugees become surplus populations in systems that do not accommodate them, effectively pushing them further into informal economies, and marginalization. This is the scenario that most clearly signals the institutional liquidation of Palestinian refugees as rights-holders. Scenario four is a blueprint for the final enclosure of Palestinian refugeehood by neoliberal statecraft through bureaucratic erasure. It asks Palestinians to accept less in the name of stability, to trade rights for survival, and to normalize a future without UNRWA. This scenario does not negate the Palestinian refugees’ right to reparations, including durable solutions, as it is grounded in customary international law. However, it constitutes a denial of the international community’s responsibility for the forced displacement of Palestinians since the Nakba, displacement that was triggered by the adoption of UNGA Resolution 181 (the Partition Plan) in 1947. It fragments the refugees and their issue as a national group with well recognized rights by localizing their status, conditions and rights. Additionally, it reflects the international community’s ongoing failure to provide a just and durable solution in the face of the Ongoing Nakba in accordance with Resolution 194. 14

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