More than six million Palestinian refugees are registered with the UN refugee company UNRWA, based on Palestinian authorities on Thursday.
In an announcement marking World Refugee Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated 2.5 million refugees reside within the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, constituting 42% of the registered Palestinian refugees.
The assertion stated that refugees comprise round 66% and 26.3% of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively.
According to the assertion, round 40.2 Palestinian refugees within the diaspora reside in Jordan, 9.7% reside in Syria and eight.2% in Lebanon.
“These estimates represent the minimum number of Palestinian refugees, taking into account that they are unregistered refugees, as this number does not include those Palestinians who were displaced after 1949 until the eve of the war of June 1967,” the assertion stated.
“It also does not include Palestinians who left or were deported in 1967 on the grounds of war and those who were not refugees in the first place.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr