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View of Jabal Al-Hussein Palestinian refugee camp in Amman. After Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1950, it conferred its citizenship on the West Bank Palestinians. [13] The combined population of the West Bank and Jordan consisted of two-thirds Palestinians (one-third in the West Bank and one-third in the East Bank) and one-third Jordanians.
After the war, Jordan expelled the PLO to Lebanon but kept refugees and integrated Palestinian citizens in Jordan. Palestinians in the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship until Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank on 31 July 1988. Arafat later recognized the PLO as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian ...
About 300,000 Palestinian refugees were expelled or fled to Jordan. After 1967, all religious groups were granted administration over their own holy sites, while administration of the Temple Mount – sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims – remained in the hands of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf.
[34] Massacres and forced expulsions of Palestinian Arabs by Zionist forces were either tolerated or implemented by the Yishuv leadership, [citation needed] with Yitzhak Rabin reporting on the orders he received in the expulsion of 50,000-70,000 Palestinians from Lydda and Ramle that David Ben-Gurion "waved his hand in a gesture which said ...
Some 70% of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents are already registered by the United Nations as refugees, many of whom are descendants of Palestinians who were displaced in 1948, when some 700,000 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clickable map of the more than 400 depopulated towns and villages of the 1948 Palestinian exodus (red) and the c. 60 modern day Palestinian refugee camps (blue) Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country, village or ...
For Jordan, Trump's talk of resettling some 2 million Gazans comes dangerously close to its nightmare of a mass expulsion of Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank - echoing a vision long ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1948 Palestine war Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict From top to bottom, left to right: Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni with fellow fighters from the Holy War Army Haganah personnel carry a man wounded by the ...