Jordan and Egypt refuse to
accept Palestinian refugees. Their
refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of
Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for
statehood.
In October, a leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry
included recommendations to forcibly transfer Gaza’s population of 2.3 million
out of the territory and into tent cities in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
Government ministers Bezalel
Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have also both openly advocated the expulsion of Palestinians from
Gaza to make way for their replacement by Israeli settlers.
Jordan refuses to take any
more Palestinians. There are about three
million Palestinians already living in Jordan who were granted citizenship
through a 1954 amendment to nationality laws that came after the annexation of
the West Bank. But those displaced from the Gaza
Strip after 1967, were not.
The Jordan-Israel Peace
Treaty was signed on October 26, 1994.
The treaty guaranteed Jordan the restoration of its occupied land
(approximately 380 square kilometers), as well as an equitable share of water
from the Yarmouk and Jordan rivers.
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