DUBAI, May 17 (Bernama) -- The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) said the international community ought to mend the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people, and work out a just solution for the Palestinian cause.

The body said the world community should do so by ensuring that Palestinians regained their inalienable national rights, acquired emancipation from occupation and established an independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital as well as secured the return of refugees to their homeland.

"It's about time the international community, which has turned a blind eye to the Palestinian tragedy for over 61 years, to push for the application of the resolutions of international legitimacy, which endorse the right of the Palestinians to return to their homeland and compensate them for the woes and tribulations they have been through for decades," the grouping of Muslim countries said in a statement.

The continued failure to find a just solution to the Palestinian question in all its aspects, including the Palestinian refugees' right of return, meant that the conflict would go unabated with its attendant blood shedding, instability and disruption of peace in the region and the world, according to the statement, issued on the 61st anniversary of Al Nakba.

Al Nakba refers to the time when Palestinians were uprooted from their homes, lands and villages before and after the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.

"On the painful anniversary of this tragedy, the OIC reiterates its incessant support for the Palestinian people until they retrieve their full rights to freedom, return to their homeland, and independence," the statement added.

-- BERNAMA