Editing Palestinian refugees (section)

===Jordan===
{{See also|Palestinians in Jordan}}
"More than 2 million registered Palestine refugees live in Jordan. Most Palestine refugees in Jordan, but not all, have full citizenship",<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/jordan |title= Where We Work |publisher= UNRWA |access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref> following [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank|Jordan's annexation and occupation of the West Bank]]. The percentage of Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps to those who settled outside the camps is the lowest of all UNRWA fields of operations. Palestine refugees are allowed access to public services and healthcare, as a result, refugee camps are becoming more like poor city suburbs than refugee camps. Most Palestine refugees moved out of the camps to other parts of the country and the number of people registered in refugee camps as of January 2015 is 385,418, who live in ten refugee camps.<ref name="UNRWA2015"/> This caused UNRWA to reduce the budget allocated to Palestine refugee camps in Jordan. Former UNRWA chief-attorney James G. Lindsay wrote in 2009: "In Jordan, where 2 million Palestinian refugees live, all but 167,000 have citizenship, and are fully eligible for government services including education and health care." Lindsay suggests that eliminating services to refugees whose needs are subsidized by [[Jordan]] "would reduce the refugee list by 40%".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.jpost.com/EditionFrancaise/Home.aspxservlet/Satellite?cid=1233304645372&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708164719/http://www.jpost.com/EditionFrancaise/Home.aspxservlet/Satellite?cid=1233304645372&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter |url-status=dead |title= Israel News - Online Israeli News Covering Israel & The Jewish World |date=8 July 2012 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |website= jpost.com}}</ref><ref name=Lindsay2009>{{cite journal |url= https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus91.pdf |title= Fixing UNRWA |author= James G. Lindsay |page= 52 (see footnote 11) |journal= Policy Focus |issue= 91 |publisher= The Washington Institute for Near East Policy |date= January 2009 |access-date= 4 April 2020 |archive-date= 31 July 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220731164234/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus91.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref>

Palestinians who moved from the [[West Bank]] (whether refugees or not) to Jordan, are issued yellow-ID cards to distinguish them from the Palestinians of the "official 10 refugee camps" in Jordan. From 1988 to 2012, thousands of those yellow-ID card Palestinians had their Jordanian citizenship revoked. [[Human Rights Watch]] estimated that about 2,700 Palestinians were stripped of Jordanian nationality between 2004 and 2008.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/02/01/jordan-stop-withdrawing-nationality-palestinian-origin-citizens Jordan: Stop Withdrawing Nationality from Palestinian-Origin Citizens] - [[Human Rights Watch]].</ref> In 2012, the Jordanian government promised to stop revoking the citizenship of some Palestinians, and restored citizenship to 4,500 Palestinians who had previously lost it.<ref>[http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-promises-to-stop-revoking-nationality-from-palestinians/ Jordan promises to stop revoking citizenship from Palestinians] - ''[[Times of Israel]]''</ref>