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Facts & Figures - 1967 Displaced Persons 

Total 1967 Displaced Persons  
 

Official Israeli estimate 200,000 - 250,000
Official Palestinian/Jordanian estimate 800,000 - 1 mil.
Currently Jordanian citizens 721,000 (Jordanian Statistical Bureau)
Currently in Egypt 100,000 (est.)
Displaced Persons Arrived in Jordan in 1967 (not including descendants) 
 
Official Jordanian estimate 250,000
Jordanian & UNRWA statistics (quoted by Israeli press) 217,165             177,165 registered with UNRWA 
                         40,000 not in refugee camps
 
Israeli Statistical Bureau (1967) records of persons crossing the bridge to Jordan 
in 1967		 173,000
- 50% below the age of 14 
- Hosted mainly in three refugee camps: Baqa’a RC (25 km west of Amman), Shneller RC (between Amman and Zarqa), Ghaza RC (next to Jarash) 

Origin of Displaced Persons in 1967 (selected examples)*  

Evicted during the 1967 War from LATROUN area (three destroyed villages on the bottom of the Jerusalem hills): 

Yalou 1,489
Emwas 1,420
Bet Nouba 2,335
QALQILYA 3,000
TULKAREM 4,200
BETHLEHEM 5,500
   
REFUGEE CAMPS in the West Bank (1948 refugees displaced for the second time in 1967):  
70,000 (estimated total) 
Aqbat Jaber RC/Jericho 18,000
Ain Sultan RC/Jericho 14,000 
Jiftlik/Jordan Valley 6,000 
Evicted after the War (June 9 - July 31, 1967) 
Thousands of Palestinians crossed the bridge to Jordan by means of a bus transfer organized by then-Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan, and then-Military Governor of the Occupied Territories, General Haim Herzog (former President of Israel). Persons leaving had to sign a guarantee that they would not come back. 
[*Source: Rubik Rosental, Ha’aretz, 10/3/1995]
 
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