Palestinian Expulsion from Kuwait
- Palestinian Expulsion from Kuwait
At the end of the Gulf War Kuwait expelled some 400,000 Palestinians because the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had aligned the PLO with Saddam Hussein, who had invaded Kuwait.Fact|date=June 2008 The exodus took place during one week in March 1991, after Kuwait was liberated from Iraqi occupation. Despite the fact that a number of Palestinians had joined the Kuwaiti resistance to Iraq's occupation, they were punished for the position adopted by the PLO leader.Fact|date=June 2008
The exodus has caused great strain on the Palestinian economy, since many Palestinians working in Kuwait have been an important source of income to the Palestinian economy.Fact|date=June 2008
Prior to the exodus, Palestinians made up about 30% of Kuwait's population.Fact|date=June 2008 By 2006 only a few had returned to Kuwait and today the number of Palestinians living in Kuwait is less than 40,000 (under 3% of the population).Fact|date=June 2008
On December 12, 2004, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas apologized for the PLO's support of Saddam Hussein during the invasion of Kuwait. [ [http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4089961.stm Abbas apology to Kuwait over Iraq] , BBC News, December 12, 2004]
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