ABSTRACT
It is very difficult to appreciate how vast and how important is the problem of the refugees in Jordan. Altogether there are about one million refugees, all Arabs, but of these over half a million are resident in Jordan. The refugees, soon after their evacuation from Israel, were in danger of starving by the tens of thousands. The refugees live, family by family, in small huts made of brick or mud and having an area of about 4 yards by 5 yards for each family, whether the family is big or small. At the end of the First World War the number of Jews in Palestine did not exceed 50,000, as compared with over 650,000 Arabs. The number of people who have become refugees as a result of the seizure by the Jews of West Galilee, the Jerusalem area and neighbouring areas, including the cities of Jaffa and Acre, exceeds half a million people.
