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===Palestinian exodus from Kuwait===
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A [[Palestinian exodus from Kuwait (1990–91)|Palestinian exodus from Kuwait]] took place during and after the Gulf War. During the Gulf War, more than 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait during the [[Invasion of Kuwait|Iraqi occupation of Kuwait]] due to harassment and intimidation by Iraqi security forces,<ref name="ir"/> in addition to getting fired from work by Iraqi authority figures in Kuwait.<ref name=ir>{{cite web|author=Shafeeq Ghabra|title=The PLO in Kuwait|url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/1457|date=8 May 1991|access-date=2 September 2013|archive-date=7 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307074924/https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/1457|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the Gulf War, the Kuwaiti authorities forcibly pressured nearly 200,000 Palestinians to leave Kuwait in 1991.<ref name="ir"/> Kuwait's policy, which led to this exodus, was a response to alignment of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the PLO with Saddam Hussein.

The Palestinians who fled Kuwait were [[Jordanian people|Jordanian citizens]].<ref name=jor>{{cite journal|author1=Yann Le Troquer |author2=Rozenn Hommery al-Oudat |title=From Kuwait to Jordan: The Palestinians' Third Exodus |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|volume=28 |issue=3 |date=Spring 1999|pages=37–51|jstor=2538306 |doi=10.2307/2538306 }}</ref> In 2013, 280,000 Jordanian citizens of Palestinian origin lived in Kuwait.<ref name=mon>{{cite web |title=Jordanians of Kuwait |url=http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php?rog3=KU|work=[[Joshua Project]]|year=2013}}</ref> In 2012, 80,000 Palestinians (without Jordanian [[citizenship]]) lived in Kuwait.<ref name=monitor>{{cite news|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/palestinians-open-kuwait-embassy.html|work=Al Monitor|title=Palestinians Open Kuwaiti Embassy|date=23 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522150710/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/palestinians-open-kuwait-embassy.html|archive-date=22 May 2013}}</ref>

Saudi Arabia expelled [[Yemen]]i workers after Yemen supported Saddam during the Gulf War.<ref>"[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/8557546/Yemens-president-flees-for-medical-treatment-as-search-for-new-leader-begins.html Yemen's president flees for medical treatment as search for new leader begins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922211449/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/8557546/Yemens-president-flees-for-medical-treatment-as-search-for-new-leader-begins.html |date=22 September 2018 }}". ''The Daily Telegraph''. 5 June 2011</ref>