CPTnet
23 March 2006

IRAQ: Palestinians on Jordanian border moved back to Iraq

Eighty-eight Palestinian Iraqis, including forty-two children, who have been
camping out on open ground in the "no man's land" between the borders of
Jordan and Iraq since Sunday, 19 March 2006 were moved back into Iraq on
Wednesday. Iraqi forces asked the Palestinians to leave to reduce border
tensions, and the Palestinians agreed.

An Iraqi colonel told the Palestinians, whom two members of CPT's Iraq team
are accompanying, that if U.N. representatives came to the Jordanian border,
he would allow them to enter Iraq to speak with the Palestinians.

The Palestinians have been living in five tents, some provided by the Iraqi
Red Crescent Society. They are receiving water from locals, but no other
organizations have been able to provide relief supplies.

The U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) are working with Jordanian
officials concerning the concerning the situation of the Palestinians
seeking entry into Jordan.