Fatah officially recognizes the Oslo Accords with Israel, whereas Hamas does not. United States As of May 2012, the United States Senate Appropriations Committee approved a definition of a Palestine refugee to include only those original Palestine refugees who were actually displaced between June 1946 and May 1948, resulting in an estimated number of 30,000. See also Estimates of the Palestinian Refugee flight of 1948 Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries Palestinian diaspora References Notes Citations Sources Books Esber, Rosemarie M. (2008) Under the Cover of War: the Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians. Arabicus Books & Media Gelber, Yoav (2006). Palestine 1948. Sussex Academic Press. . Gerson, Allan (1978). Israel, the West Bank and International Law. Routledge. McDowall, David (1989). Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond. I.B.Tauris. . Morris, Benny (2003). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Morris, Benny, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, (2009) Yale University Press. Reiter, Yitzhak, National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution), (2009) Syracuse Univ Press (Sd). Pappe, Ilan (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, London and New York: Oneworld, 2006. Segev, Tom (2007) 1967 Israel, The War and the Year that Transformed the Middle East Little Brown Seliktar, Ofira (2002). Divided We Stand: American Jews, Israel, and the Peace Process. Praeger/Greenwood. Tovy, Jacob (2014). Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue: The Formulation of a Policy, 1948–1956. Routledge. Other External links UNRWA Palestinian refugee statistics Google map of 58 UNRWA camps with descriptions and photos UN refugee agency unveils Palestinian archive Refugees by type History of the Palestinian refugees