Palestinian Refugees As Part of The Syrian Refugee Crisis
A large number of Palestinians were part of the Syrian refugees, who fled Syria as a result of the Syrian civil war. The number of Palestinian Syrians among the Syrian refugees was in thousands out of nearly half a million Syrian refugees, though no exact data is available.
Jordan and Lebanon has turned away Palestinian refugees attempting to flee the humanitarian crises in Syria. Jordan has absorbed 126,000 Syrian refugees, but Palestinians fleeing Syria are placed in a separate refugee camp, under stricter conditions and are banned from entering Jordanian cities.
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