The PLO and the refugees in Lebanon
The formation of the state of Israel in 1948 was a turning point for the Palestinians as thousands of them were forced to seek new places to establish in other Arab countries, such as Lebanon, which had traditionally been characterized for being a politically divided country among different religious groups. After the defeat of the Arab forces against Israel in 1967, in which the latter took control of all Palestine, there was a new wave of approximately 400,000 Palestinian refugees into Lebanon (Fraser, 1995, p. 77). The war also represented a big loss for Jordan as it lost the West Bank and the headwaters of the Jordan River.
Palestinians suffered the consequences of a government that denied them some of the basic human rights, such as the right to work, access to education and health. More significantly, the government did not give them any civil rights and confined them to refugee camps in specific parts of the country under deplorable......
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