Bethlehem / Munjed Jadou - The Aida Youth Activity Center is located
in northern Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp.
Today it has launched a project to build a gigantic structure
in the shape of key hole, in addition to the largest iron key
which goes next to it. This is all in memorial of 60 years of
Al Nakba, the Catastrophe.
The key is 10 meters long and weighs two tons The key
hole structure is about 12 meters high. The key hole
structure is about 12 meters high.
The key represents the symbol of Right of Return, United
Nations resolution 194, for Palestinians over the years.
This comes to commemorate the 60th anniversary of
the Palestinian Nakba (The Catastrophe) in 1948.
Mr. Munther Ameera, the Director of the Center, asserts
that this campaign aims at raising awareness to the
unsolved and forgotten problem of Palestinian refugees.
It also aims at making the international world more active
in pressuring the Israeli occupation to yield to the UN’s many
resolutions, particularly UN resolution 194, which grants
Palestinian refugees their Right of Return to their homes
and lands from which they have been expelled.
Local and international supporters of the Right of Return will
gather on 8 May at the Key Monument at the gates of
Aida Refugee Camp. This demonstration will protest the
ongoing occupation and its manifestations such as the
Wall which surrounds this refugee camp from two sides.
In addition, Ameera hopes that by building this Key
Monument it will be entered into the Guinness Book
of World Records as the largest key in the world.
Ameera says this idea was a collaboration with journalists
from the Alzaitona Network. He thought of building the
largest key in the world at the entrance of the
camp in hopes of raising awareness in the
international community to the forgotten issue of
Palestinian refugees.
"We need to pressure the world to make the solving of the
refugees issue, who are still hoping to return to their lands
and homes and to end their long misery as it is their legal
and moral right granted by the UN and international law, a priority."
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