The total number of Palestinian refugees is estimated at over 8 million dispersed around the world, most of them home in host Arab countries. 4.6 million are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) 1.3 million of these are in 58 camps dispersed across three Arab countries and the Occupied Territories.
"You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave." Ariel Sharon, 24th of August 1988
Sources: Journal of Palestine Studies. Institute for Palestine Studies. University of California Press. Volume 38 pp 77-78
The Times (London) August 24 1988 page 7
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