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Tunisia: The Plight of Palestinians in Iraq

Posted 31 July 2012 14:48 GMT

Written byAmira Al Hussaini

Countries	Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, Australia
Topics	Disaster, Human Rights, War & Conflict, Migration & Immigration, Humanitarian Response
Languages	Arabic

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Español	· Túnez: La difícil situación de los palestinos en Irak
عربي	· تونس: أحوال الفلسطينيين في العراق

Tunisian blogger Nawel Abdullah posts an interview [ar] she conducted with the founder of The Australian Society for the Palestinian-Iraqi Refugee Emergency Yousef Alreemawi, who speaks to her about the plight of Palestinian refugees living in Iraq and efforts to resettle some of them in Australia.

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