Support the Right of Return for Palestinians.
Gaza Travel Agency presents an imaginary travel agency that designs the return of Gazan refugees to their ancestral towns. It is a speculative and participatory design experience inspired by historian Dr. Salman Abu Sitta’s practical plans for the return of Palestinian refugees. It invites visitors to visualise, not debate, the routes, possibilities, and emotions of return.
Dutch Design Week
The Gaza Travel Agency will be attending Dutch Design Week, harnessing the imaginative power of design to explore the right of return for Palestinians. With this year’s theme Past. Present. Possible., Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, 18-26 October 2025, reflects on its legacy, showcasing today’s creative energy, and exploring what design could be in the future.
Why The Right to Return?
Since 1948, over 80% of the Gazan population have been refugees, 50% of them are children. They were displaced from villages and towns, most of which, according to recent official data, are still empty on Israeli territory.
Exile may keep them alive, but it is distant, logistically complex, expensive, and unjust. And more than likely, a one-way journey.
Return is walkable, immediately available, cost-effective, and just.
What is the Right of Return?
The right of return is firmly established in international law and has been reaffirmed by the UN General Assembly more than 135 times since 1949. Yet it continues to be denied. The Gaza Travel Agency seeks to bring the right of return back into focus, not as an abstract resolution but as a tangible project, representing the only human and acceptable fate for Palestinians displaced to Gaza, a place that has now been made unliveable.
How can you help?
Join us in promoting this solution to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Here’s how you can help:
1. Write letters, articles, and papers to media and government.
2. Ask members of your government to promote the right of return.
3. Talk about it on social media and share the #RightToReturn
Use your voice to support the campaign
The people of Gaza face genocide or exile, yet an overlooked solution remains: the Right of Return. Lend your voice to the Right of Return:
1) Choose a statement from the Resolutions provided:
a) “Refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date”: UN General Assembly Resolution 194 (III), 1948
b) [it is] “ the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and calls for their return”: UN General Assembly Resolution 3236 (XXIX), 1974
c) “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”: Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, 1949
2) Record a short video of you reading the statement and its source
in vertical format. Speak out your name and the quote “I support the Right of Return for Palestinians”
3) Share the video on social media or via email and invite our account @bringgazahome as a collaborator with the hashtags: #RightofReturn and #normalizereturn.
For more detailed instructions, please follow our post here.
Latest Resources
Return Plan 2023
Because you are born in exile, you or your parents or even your grandparents. They came here because they were refugees. They were expelled from their ancient homeland Palestine, older in history than London, Paris or Berlin, not to speak of Philadelphia…
Palestinians’ Right of Return Is a Basic Question of Justice
Denying Palestinian refugees the right to come back to the areas from which they were ethnically cleansed is deeply unjust. We must recognize the Palestinian right of return.
Mass forced displacement in Gaza highlights urgent need for Israel to uphold Palestinians’ right to return
Denying Palestinian refugees the right to come back to the areas from which they were ethnically cleansed is deeply unjust. We must recognize the Palestinian right of return.