More than six million Palestinian refugees have been registered with the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNRWA, the Palestinian Authority announced on Thursday.
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated that 2.5 million refugees live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or 42 percent of registered Palestinian refugees.
The statement states that refugees make up about 66 and 26.3 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
According to the statement, about 40.2 percent of Palestinian refugees in the diaspora live in Jordan, 9.7 percent in Syria and 8.2 percent in Lebanon.
“These estimates represent the minimum number of Palestinian refugees, given that they are unregistered refugees, because this number does not include those Palestinians who were displaced after 1949 and until the war in June 1967,” the statement said.
It was pointed out that this number does not include Palestinians who left or were deported from the area in 1967 due to the war and those who were not refugees at all, AA writes.
