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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.
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.
[127] About half of these were expelled from Lydda and Ramle on 12 through 14 July. Morris says that expulsion orders were given for both towns, the one for Ramle calling for "sorting out of the inhabitants, and send the army-age males to a prisoner-of-war camp". [128] "The commanders involved understood that what was happening was an expulsion ...
About 750,000 Palestinians were expelled — some of whom fled to Jordan — during what Arabs refer to as the 1948 Nakba, or "catastrophe," when Israel was created.
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 ...
Black flags were raised by Palestinians when Balfour visited Jerusalem and almost 250 Jews and Arabs were killed and many more wounded in August 1929 at the Wailing Wall in a tragedy that became ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nakba of 1948 Part of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict Palestinians being displaced after the fall of Haifa, accompanied by armed Haganah personnel. Location Mandatory Palestine Date 31 December 1947 – 20 July 1949 Target Palestinian Arabs Attack type Ethnic ...
For Palestinians, permanent displacement from their homeland is a perennial fear. It is one that has followed them from the war that led to Israel’s creation to 1948, in which some 700,000 ...