Editing Palestinian refugees (section)

===Palestinian exodus from Kuwait (Gulf War)===
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The [[Palestinian exodus from Kuwait (Gulf War)|Palestinian exodus from Kuwait]] took place during and after the [[Gulf War]]. During the Gulf War, more than 200,000 Palestinians voluntarily fled Kuwait during the [[Invasion of Kuwait|Iraqi occupation of Kuwait]] due to harassment and intimidation by [[Iraq]]i 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}}</ref> After the Gulf War, [[Kuwait]]i 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 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) with the dictator [[Saddam Hussein]], who had earlier invaded Kuwait.

Prior to the Gulf War, Palestinians numbered 400,000 out of [[Demographics of Kuwait|Kuwait's population]] of 2.2 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://countrystudies.us/persian-gulf-states/19.htm |title=Kuwait – Population |publisher=Countrystudies.us |access-date=10 February 2016}}</ref> The Palestinians who fled Kuwait were [[Jordanian people|Jordanian citizens]].<ref name=jor>{{cite journal|author=Yann Le Troquer and 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| issn=0377-919X }}</ref> In 2013, there were 280,000 Jordanian citizens of Palestinian origin 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 |last=Hatuqa |first=Dalia |date=15 April 2013 |title=Palestinians Reopen EmbassyIn Kuwait After Two Decades |url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/palestinians-open-kuwait-embassy.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522041717/https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2013/04/palestinians-open-kuwait-embassy.html |archive-date=22 May 2022 |access-date=28 October 2013 |work=[[Al-Monitor]]}}</ref> In total, there are 360,000 Palestinians in Kuwait as of 2012–2013.