The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about the fate of 89 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, who fled Baghdad and have been stuck in no man’s land on the Iraqi-Jordanian border since Sunday, as the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) held the US occupation troops in Iraq “responsible” for the safety of about 34,000 Palestinians living in the country.
Jordan, fearful of a large influx from 34,000 Palestinian refugees living in Iraq, unilaterally closed the border on Sunday after a busload of Palestinians arrived.

The group, which also includes two elderly people and three with medical problems, was in an “extremely precarious situation” in the harsh desert climate, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.

“We understand the group has little shelter and meagre food supplies. UNHCR’s ability to protect and assist these refugees is extremely difficult because of our limited access to the border area,” spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told a news briefing in Geneva.

Some of the Palestinians who are currently stranded at the no- man’s land between Iraq and Jordan told Jordanian newspapers that they were without water, food or shelter.

They said the Jordanian government prevented them from proceeding to the Rweished refugee camp, about 60 kilometres inside Jordanian territory that was set up in cooperation with the United Nations on the eve of the US-led war on Iraq three years ago.

A total of about 350 refugees, mostly Palestinians, are still living at the Rweished camp with the hopes to be allowed to live in Jordan or other Arab countries, according to Yara Sharif, spokeswoman for the UNHCR in Amman.

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This is very depressing to say the least. Just when you think 52 years of inflicted pain were enough to at least heal the wounds of the refugees who fled Palestine in 1948 and 1967 then from Lebanon in 1978 and 1982 after the Israeli invasions and then gain in 1990-1991 during the Gulf War from Kuwait and other Arab Gulf Countries.

New tragedy, refugees again, but hopefully not forever!

On the other hand, you have an Israeli occupation of those refugees home, a country called Palestine where its people were told to go find another place, that they are Arabs and they should and must seek refuge in any Arab country because Israelis have left their home countries and marched to Palestine, according to their God they were promised that land! I can’t help but wonder what kind of Gods is the one they have?! one who says murder and expell people from their homes to replace them!.