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Sudan to host thousands of Palestinian refugees from Iraq
By Reuters
Tags: Sudan, refugees, Palestinians 

KHARTOUM - Sudan will host hundreds of Palestinian refugees who
have been stranded for months in terrible conditions on Iraq's border with Syria and Jordan, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

"It's a few hundred. The president (Omar Hassan al-Bashir) agreed to the request of both Hamas and Fatah to accommodate them and we are going to inform the Arab League and then make our preparations," said a senior Foreign Ministry official, who declined to be named.
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Iraq had 30,000 registered Palestinian refugees before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The community became the target of attacks partly because of the Baghdad government's support for the Palestinians under Saddam Hussein's rule.

An estimated 15,000 Palestinians remain in Baghdad where they are vulnerable to murder, kidnapping and threats, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).

Some 1,550 Palestinians have been trapped in al Waleed and al Tanf refugee camps on the Iraqi side of the Syrian border for months, UNHCR has said.

Conditions in the camps, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius in the Iraqi desert (122 degrees Fahrenheit), are poor.

Syria stopped taking in Palestinian refugees after accepting 250 in 2006, though Damascus allowed four seriously ill refugees to enter for treatment in August.

Sudan itself has hundreds of thousands of refugees in neighboring countries and a huge diaspora because of decades of multiple civil wars
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  1.   Sudanese going to Israel .. and Palestinians going to Sudan? 11:51  |  Eric 08/10/07
  2.   They`ll be quite at home there 11:59  |  Israeli 08/10/07
  3.   What a cruel joke 12:20  |  Yonatan 08/10/07
  4.   Why are the Palestinians so unpopular? 12:24  |  Yonatan 08/10/07
  5.   #4, Yonatan 13:26  |  Hannah 08/10/07
  6.   #5, Hannah 13:51  |  Lou 08/10/07
  7.   Yonatan#3... Darfurians are actually Muslim not Christian!! 14:06  |  Eric 08/10/07
  8.   Why are zionists SO unpopular? 14:11  |  TrippleJump 08/10/07
  9.   THE RIGHT OF RETURN OF PALESTINIANS IS A MUST 14:13  |  Drogba 08/10/07
  10.   #6, Lou, temporarily squatting upon Palestinian land 14:14  |  Hannah 08/10/07
  11.   #8, Triple Jump 14:23  |  Hannah 08/10/07
  12.   Iraqi refugees and not "Palestinian" 14:33  |  Stephen Rees 08/10/07
  13.   #5 Lou on Hannah 15:07  |  Yonatan 08/10/07
  14.   #7 Eric - Correct your own information 15:09  |  Yonatan 08/10/07
  15.   #9 Drogba - You`re right! 15:11  |  Yonatan 08/10/07
  16.   Hannah, temporarily living on the face of this Earth 15:12  |  Yonatan 08/10/07
  17.   There is lots of room in the Desert 15:18  |  ottomatik 08/10/07
  18.   LET SUDAN TAKE ALL PALS,OR CANASA,FRANCE, BOSNIA,CHECHNYA,IRAQ... 15:21  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 08/10/07
  19.   #4 Yonatan - Reason Iraqis hate palestinians 15:50  |  Chick 08/10/07
  20.   TripleJunk - CrazyHannah 17:05  |  Polybios 08/10/07
  21.   #9, Absolutely! 17:51  |  B 19/11/07
  22.   Why does the title say thousands if it`s "a few hundred"? 20:09  |  Natasha 05/08/08
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