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 Children at the Tanf Refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border |
Palestine House has undertaken a campaign to support community efforts
to sponsor Palestinian refugees from Iraq, stranded in the desert
refugee camps on the Iraqi borders with Syria and Jordan. Special
mention must be made of Rana Abdullah and her family who have
spearheaded these efforts.
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On the border
between Iraq/Jordan and Iraq/Syria today live hundreds of Palestinian
families who fled the US war to find themselves stranded between states.
These families live in tents, in squalor, with little certainty or hope
for the future, like their parents and grandparents did after their
expulsion from their own homeland in the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) by the
Israelis. The refugee camps in the Iraqi desert are examples of the
on-going Nakba (Catastrophe) that Palestinian refugees face. The fate of
the 34,000 Palestinian refugees who once lived in Iraq can be added to
the many tragic stories of the US invasion and occupation of that
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