Today, most Palestinians and their descendants in Jordan are naturalized, making Jordan the only Arab country to fully integrate the Palestinian refugees of 1948, as the West Bank was annexed and held by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.

4 days ago · In the 1967 Mideast war, when Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 300,000 more Palestinians fled, mostly into Jordan. Palestinians perform Friday prayers near the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. ...

4 days ago · He added, “Jordan is for Jordanians, and Palestine is for Palestinians.” Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza, and Fatah , the Palestinian political movement that dominates the Palestinian ...

Oct 19, 2023 · As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack, neighboring Egypt and Jordan have replied with staunch refusal, and they have multiple reasons for rejecting the idea.

4 days ago · More than two million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have been granted citizenship, live in Jordan, according to the UN. They are descendants of some of the approximately 750,000 Palestinians ...

4 days ago · President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has asked the king of Jordan to take in more Palestinians, adding that Palestinians should leave the Gaza Strip to “clean out” the enclave.

Oct 20, 2024 · In this episode, we explore the plight of stateless Palestinians in Jordan, particularly the nearly 200,000 ‘ex-Gazan’ refugees lacking citizenship.

Mar 7, 2024 · Israel’s war on Gaza that erupted in 2023 continues a long history of systemic displacement of Palestinians. Over 2 million Palestinian refugees currently live in Jordan in indefinite exile, tens of thousands without citizenship in any country.

Palestinian refugees who came to Jordan from the Gaza Strip, many of whom had previously been forcibly displaced from their homes in what became Israel, were never given Jordanian citizenship and have consequently remained stateless.

Nov 21, 2023 · The closing of Jordan’s border to Palestinians—while on the surface appearing to be insensitive to Palestinian suffering—enjoys wide domestic and Arab support. It is viewed in the region as an attempt to block Israel’s desire to get rid of its Palestinian majority “problem,” and thus as a nationalistic move.