As per the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, over 2 million registered Palestinians now reside in Jordan. Despite the efforts of local governments and international organizations to assist the refugees, the sheer magnitude of the refugee population means they still...
Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza has fallen flat with both countries' governments.
Today, 42 per cent of registered Palestinian refugees live in Jordan. In this historical context, one might expect Palestinian refugee camps to be highly politicised spaces. Yet Luigi Achilli argues in this book that there is in fact a relative absence of political activity. Instead, what is ...
Source: Xinhua |2016-09-01 09:01:34| Editor: liuxin A palestinian girl sits in a poultry store in Baqaa camp for palestinian refugees, Jordan, Aug. 31, 2016. (Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh) 12
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with those countries' governments and left a key congressional ally in Washington perplexed on Sunday.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the population to “ju
Palestinian refugees living in Jordan march in Al-Hussein Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, on Oct. 31, 2014. The march was held in support of Palestinian people in Jerusalem following the escalating security situation around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. (Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)...
Palestinians refer to the event as the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe.” In the 1967 Mideast war, when Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 300,000 more Palestinians fled, mostly into Jordan. The refugees and their descendants now number nearly 6 million, most living in camps and ...
President Donald Trump says he would like to see Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the...
thousands of displaced people, especially those of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He stressed that UNRWA plays an essential role that cannot be replaced or substituted, requiring urgent action to provide all forms of support to it. ...