Building Future Palestine
On 13 Sept 2024, the awards were announced in London for the 8th year Competition for the reconstruction of destroyed Palestinian villages by Israel in 1948. This is in fulfillment of UN resolution no 194 and many other resolutions calling for the right of the Palestinians to return to their homes in Palestine and their right for compensation for the Israeli use of their property since 1948.
Notably absent this year are students from Gaza Strip, because of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza. This term is called Gaza Term, in honour of over 200,000 Palestinians killed or injured, mostly women and children. One of those killed is Maha Jamal Mansour, the winner of Year 4 awards. Israeli soldiers murdered her in her home. We lost one brilliant talent.
This year 2024, 54 architectural students from 12 universities in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon participated and produced unique projects for the reconstruction of Abu Shusha (Haifa), Ayn az Zaytun, Al Mazar (Jenin), Bayt Jibrin and Saffouria. The British Jury were the distinguished architects and professors Nasser Golzari, Yara Sharif, Angela Brady and Rim Kalsoum.
In the last 8 years, over 300 architectural students from Palestine and the Middle East participated and produced detailed reconstruction plans for 60 villages distributed over several distinct geographical regions of Palestine.
This competition is run by the British company, Palestine Land Society (PLS) in London. PLS is UN accredited by CEIRRP. Its founder and president is Dr Salman Abu Sitta.
The video of Year 8 announcement of awards is here.
Awards of the 8th year competition for the reconstruction of destroyed Palestinian villages
Details of this competition over the years are reported in PLS website at:
https://www.plands.org/en/competition-news
https://www.plands.org/en/competition-news/competition-history-and-operation-year-8
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