Ethnic Palestinians in Trouble in Iraq

Refugees International reports that "34,000 stateless Palestinians have lived in Iraq since 2003. Since the beginning of U.S. military operations in Iraq, many suffered persecution at the hands of the Iraqi government and other armed groups. More than 3,000 fled to the Syrian-Iraqi border, where they live in makeshift tents in the desert with limited access to basic services. Syria refuses to allow them to enter its territory and only a few have been resettled, mostly to Sweden and Chile." It is now planned "to move these people to relocate this population to pre-fabricated housing in a Khartoum neighborhood, with no path to citizenship."