More than 1,000 Palestinian expats attended a convention geared towards fostering greater ties with the Palestinian diaspora.
“I heard them wondering why their grandparents left, asking how they could leave this beautiful city,” Bshara Dabah, head of the Ramallah Convention Investment Committee, conveyed to The Media Line in reference to the frustration felt by many Palestinians whose families decades ago emigrated abroad. “I heard them repeating ‘it’s hard to come back and see all of this; they should never have left Ramallah and Palestine.”