The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned Israeli Knesset's approval of a law that would allow the sale of Palestinian refugees' properties in 1948 historic Palestine. He described the measure as being both unlawful and illegitimate. It is also, he pointed out, a new infringement of international obligations and legal covenants and an attempt to blur the issue of Palestinian refugees and dispose of their property. Ihsanoglu stressed that the Israeli measure calls for the criminalization of any person or party that would be involved in selling or purchasing Palestinian refugees' lands. He also called on the United Nations to dispatch a fact-finding mission to document the violations and aggressions Israel perpetrates on the lands belonging to Palestinian refugees of 1948, according to a press release of the OIC. The Secretary General underscored the UN's responsibility for implementing its resolutions on the protection of the rights and property of Palestinian refugees.
