Iceland decided to accept 29 stranded Palestinian refugees after appeals by UNHCR seeking to find permanent solutions for the group of mostly widows and their children.
The group, made mostly of women and children, has been stranded on the Iraq-Syria border for two years, and are a part of approximately 2,300 Palestinians living in refugee camps made mostly of tents.
They are a small portion of the 20-25,000 Palestinians who fled to Iraq in 1948 or 67, and are fleeing once again from the internal violence in Iraq.
From Ma'an
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