Palestinians were forced out of Palestine and became refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. It is worth noting that these are the countries with the largest numbers of Palestinian Refugees (excluding the camps in the West Bank and Gaza), but there is a large Palestinian diaspora in Europe, the Arab World (other than these five areas), South America, and North America.
Palestinians were forced out of Palestine and became refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. It is worth noting that these are the countries with the largest numbers of Palestinian Refugees (excluding the camps in the West Bank and Gaza), but there is a large Palestinian diaspora in Europe, the Arab World (other than these five areas), South America, and North America.
Each one treated the Palestinian Refugees worse than the other.
Approximately 720,000 Palestinian Arabs fled.However, it is worth noting that 850,000 Jews fled as refugees from Arab countries from 1947-1952 and 500,000 of them settled in Israel.
Palestinians were forced out of Palestine and became refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. It is worth noting that these are the countries with the largest numbers of Palestinian Refugees (excluding the camps in the West Bank and Gaza), but there is a large Palestinian diaspora in Europe, the Arab World (other than these five areas), South America, and North America.
Israel and Jordan have allowed certain numbers of Palestinian refugees to become citizens. Also many of the countries outside of the Arab World have granted citizenship to Palestinians through resettlement protocols (such as various European, North American, and South American countries);
Alex Takkenberg has written: 'The status of Palestinian refugees in international law' -- subject(s): Arab Refugees, International status, Legal status, laws, Palestinian Arabs, Refugees, Arab
In 1948-1955, 720,000 Palestinians fled Israel and 850,000 Jews fled the Arab countries.
To reestablish and return to their homeland.
Robert Faherty has written: 'In human terms' -- subject(s): Refugees, Palestinian Arab, Education, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Palestinian Arab Refugees
The countries that HAVE contributed to UNRWA, the UN agency in charge of helping the Palestinians are the United States, Canada, most Western European countries, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Any country outside of that list, such as Russia, China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, all the countries of Africa, etc. do not give substantial contributions to Palestinian Refugees. Israel does not contribute funds to UNRWA, but does support UNRWA activities.
The initial number of the Arab Palestinian refugees was approximately 750,000 people. It was 65 years ago and at least half of them have by now died of old age. But by some mystery, the number of those who call themselves "Palestinian refugees" is today about 6 MILLION people. How so? Very simple. By the UN regulations and norms, the status of a refugee is not inherited. It means that if your father was a refugee, you already are not. This law applies to ALL the refugees in the world: to more than 20 millions of Germans who became refugees after the WWII, to hundreds of thousands of Japanese, to 800,000 Jews who were robbed until their lingerie in Arab countries like Syria, Egypt, Lebanon-and then thrown out of these countries. But this law does not apply to the "Palestinian refugees". For them , the UN applied another - and absolutely unique- "technique". By this technique, a "Palestinian refugee" is any person "whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948". This trick immediately converted into the " Palestinian refugees" all those hundreds of thousands of Arabs who emigrated to the Jewish Palestine from the neighboring Arab countries in 1935- 1948. If not for this trick, the initial number of the "Palestinian refugees" would be not 750,000, but hardly 200,000. Then, the UN declared that the "Palestinian refugees", maybe for their special and outstanding merits before the mankind, can INHERIT the status - and pass it to their children, grandchildren, wives, husbands, brothers, cousins... And now, 60 years later, we have 6 million of the so called "refugees" who are sure that the world must feed, teach, cure, dress and kiss them only because their grandparents fled Palestine 65 years ago.
Musa Mazzawi has written: 'The Arab refugees' -- subject(s): Arab Refugees, Palestinian Arabs, Refugees, Arab