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Palestinian Arabs who are fleeing conflict in their homeland wait for transportation that will take them over the border into Lebanon, 1948. When Great Britain pulled out of Palestine, and Israel declared its independence, several hundred thousand Arabs left their homes to escape from the conflict.

War II, so they limited the definition to those who had fled “events occurring before 1 January 1951” and “events occur- ring in Europe.” Members removed those restrictions in a later version called the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, but allowed those countries that signed the 1951 ver- sion to retain the restriction. In 2001 the United Nations

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Refugees