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(11 Jul 2000) Natural Sound

Palestinian children and residents of refugee camps in the West Bank, have marched in support of the Camp David summit due to begin on Tuesday.

The summit is intended to help settle differences before a September 13 deadline for a final peace accord on issues including the future of Jerusalem, the status and borders of Palestinian areas and the treatment of Palestinian refugees.

The demonstrators carried banners declaring their desire to return to the homes they fled in Mandatory Palestine, today towns within the state of Israel.

After the 1948 war which led to Israel's independence, about 700-thousand Palestinians fled or were forced to leave their villages and that number has swelled to about 3.6 million in camps in the West Bank, Gaza and Arab states.

Palestinians want Israel to implement a U-N resolution which says that refugees have the right to return to their original homes in villages which are now part of Israel.

The resolution also calls for compensation for those who do not wish to return.

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