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The Palestinian expulsion from Kuwait took place during and after the Gulf War, with some 200,000 Palestinians fleeing the country during the Iraqi occupation and an additional 150,000 leaving the country in March 1991, under the pressure of Kuwaiti authorities, who considered the Palestinians as supporters of the Saddam Hussein's regime. By the end of March 1991, nearly the entire Palestinian population of Kuwait left the country, moving mostly to Jordan. There were 400,000 Palestinians in Kuwait before the Gulf War. During the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait,〔 200,000 Palestinians left Kuwait due to various reasons (fear or persecution, food shortages, medical care difficulties, financial shortages, fear of arrest and mistreatment at roadblocks by Iraqis).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/1457 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ju8kNK0RlLIC&pg=PA100 )〕 After the Gulf War of 1991, nearly 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait, partly due to economic burdens, regulations on residence and fear of abuse by Kuwaiti security forces. The policy which partly led to this exodus was a response to the alignment of PLO leader Yasser Arafat with Saddam Hussein. The Palestinians who fled Kuwait were mostly Jordanian citizens. In 2012, 80,000 Palestinians lived in Kuwait. Only in 2004, the political situation between Kuwaiti and Palestinian leadership improved with official apology of Mahmud Abbas on PLO support of the Iraqi invasion in 1991. In 2012, the official Palestinian embassy in Kuwait was re-opened.〔 ==Background== Before the Gulf War, Palestinians numbered 400,000 of Kuwait's total population of 2 million.〔Journal of Palestinian Studies: (Palestinians in Kuwait ) (1991) by Anne M Lesch.〕 Palestinians arrived in Kuwait in three different phases - 1948, 1967 and 1975. In the 1980s, Palestinian Arabs constituted the bulk of labor force. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palestinian expulsion from Kuwait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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