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Expulsion of Palestinians from Kuwait (1990–91)
Emigration during and after the Gulf War
Expulsion of Palestinians from Kuwait (1990–91)
The Palestinian expulsion from Kuwait took place during and after the Gulf War. There were approximately 357,000 Palestinians living in Kuwait before the country was invaded by neighbouring Iraq on 2 August 1990. At an emergency summit in Cairo on August 10, twenty Arab League countries drafted a final statement that condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and supported the United Nations resolutions. Twelve Arab states supported the use of force, and the remaining eight, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), rejected a military solution to the Iraqi invasion. According to The Washington Post, classified US reports indicated that the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, pressed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to make his withdrawal from Kuwait conditional on the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, and on August 12, Saddam announced his offer to withdraw conditionally. The Kuwaiti government policy which led to this expulsion was a response...
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