Displaced Persons: Categories and Numbers Used by the Palestinian Delegation  
(not including spouses and descendants)  

1. Persons displaced directly by military action (June 4 until the first Israeli census in August 1967) 

to Jordan 
107,000 `67 displaced persons 
  93,000 `48 refugees displaced again in 1967 
  12,500 unclear status (including the residents of the 3 Latroun villages) 
212,000 total 

to Egypt 
 32,000 `67 displaced persons 
   3,000 `48 refugees displaced again in 1967 
   4,000 deported by Israel in 1967 
 39,000 total 

total 1.: 251,000 

2. Persons staying abroad at the time of the war and unable to return 
total 2.:   60,000 (estimate; no exact data available) 

3. “Lost IDs” (1967 - 1991) 
total 3.:   54,000 permits (i.e. 100,000 persons; Jordanian figures) 

4. Deportees (1967 - 1991) 
total 4.:    1,660 (Jordanian figures) 

Total Displaced Persons (1. - 4.): 412,660 

[Presented to the Shaml Conference by Dr. Tayseer `Amro, Palestinian delegate to the negotiations on the return of the 1967 displaced persons; for additional figures see also ARTICLE 74/12] 

 
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