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Most Palestinian ancestors came to Jordan as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967. [3] 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]
The Tuqan clan (Arabic: طوقان, romanized: Ṭūqān; also variously romanized as Toukan, Touqan, Tukan, and Tokan) is a prominent Palestinian and Jordanian political and business family. During the Ottoman era, they dominated the political and socio-economic spheres in Nablus and extended their influence to al-Salt . [ 1 ]
The Palestinian death toll has reached 8,805, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, more than 130 Palestinians have been killed, authorities there say.
A Palestinian family is a large community of extended family members with a lineage that can be traced to ancestors who resided in Palestine. Socially, these families are divided according Segmentary lines, and socio-spatial associations as city dwellers , villagers and nomads .
Mohammed and Abdalla were among 10 Palestinian Americans — nine from New Jersey and one from Staten Island — who together have lost 1,000 members of their families since the outbreak of war ...
Many of the country's citizens are Palestinians, whose families settled after successive Arab-Israeli wars, entwining the kingdom - which signed a peace treaty with neighbouring Israel in 1994 ...
After the war, Jordan expelled the PLO to Lebanon but kept refugees and integrated Palestinian citizens in Jordan. Palestinians in the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship until Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank on 31 July 1988. Arafat later recognized the PLO as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian ...
It’s the echoes of the 1948 Nakba, or “catastrophe” that haunt AbuLughod and his family — refugees originally from the Palestinian town Yaffa, now Jaffa, Israel — as they watch the ...