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The Middle East pp 195–214Cite as

Palestinians in Camps: The New Reality, 1948–65

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Abstract

Even while still in Palestine, peasants who had taken refuge in safe villages near their own in the hope of returning as soon as the fighting was over, began to feel their new status. The Israelis issued them with ID cards stamped “refugee” and in the course of time deported them. Once over the border there began the hassle with permits and papers that has been a basic feature of Palestinian life every since. [A] woman from Kweikat who, as a girl, used to creep back through the Israeli lines to “steal” flour for her family, recalls the next stage in their odyssey after their expulsion in March 1949:

We stayed in Nablus for fifteen days, then my father got us permits to go to Amman. The Jordanian police stopped us on Allenby Bridge, they said our papers weren’t right. They made us sleep on the ground by the bridge, and if a woman hadn’t got bread to feed her children, they’d die of hunger. My father went back to Nablus to fix the permits. Then we went on to Amman.1

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Sayigh, R. (1983). Palestinians in Camps: The New Reality, 1948–65. In: Asad, T., Owen, R. (eds) The Middle East. Sociology of “Developing Societies”. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17282-5_19

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