Jordan — Jordan’s leaders regularly highlight the country’s
assistance to refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict. Jordan’s minister of
planning and international cooperation, Ibrahim Sarif, told The New York Times
that the presence of so many refugees from Syria in Jordan is equivalent to
“the United States absorbing the entire population of Canada.”
[…]
At the beginning of the conflict in 2011, Jordanian authorities
permitted Palestinian refugees from Syria to enter the country. However, the
situation soon changed in the fall of 2012. Adam Coogle, a Human Rights Watch
researcher based in Amman, explained to Al-Monitor that the organization
received reports at that time of Jordanian border guards refusing to admit
Palestinian refugees from Syria. When the organization first approached the
Ministry of Interior with its reports, the authorities denied the practice,
Coogle said.
