Published : 26-08-2018
A couple of days earlier, India deported a four-member Palestinian family to Jordan. The Jordanian authorities also expelled the family to Oman hours after they detained them.
Speaking with AGPS, a source close to the family said Palestinian refugee from Syria Fahd Odeh, a resident of Yarmouk Camp, was banished with his wife and three children from India after he overstayed his visa.
According to the same source, Fahd left Syria before 2010 to pursue his studies, before he got married. He stayed in India fleeing the war in Syria. He could not renew his visa in India.
Fahd obtained a Palestinian passport from the Palestine Embassy after his Syrian travel document expired. He was later deported to Jordan, where he had been detained at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. His wife, a holder of a foreign passport, refused to stay in Jordan after the Jordanian authorities green-lighted her entry.
Fahd was also detained in Oman, to which he was deported from Jordan. He has gone homeless as India forced him back and, later, refused to let him in.
Activists expressed concern over his fate and slammed Arab countries for refusing to grant Fahd’s family, along with other Palestinians from Syria, asylum.
In May 2011, Jordan’s Policies Council, chaired by King Abdullah II, issued a decision to bar Palestinian refugees from Syria from entering Jordan.
Thousands of Palestinian refugees fled their refugee camps in war-torn Syria and have sought asylum in neighboring countries. Thousands headed for Europe, risking their lives onboard the so-called “death boats” as they rummaged around for safe shelters.
A couple of days earlier, India deported a four-member Palestinian family to Jordan. The Jordanian authorities also expelled the family to Oman hours after they detained them.
Speaking with AGPS, a source close to the family said Palestinian refugee from Syria Fahd Odeh, a resident of Yarmouk Camp, was banished with his wife and three children from India after he overstayed his visa.
According to the same source, Fahd left Syria before 2010 to pursue his studies, before he got married. He stayed in India fleeing the war in Syria. He could not renew his visa in India.
Fahd obtained a Palestinian passport from the Palestine Embassy after his Syrian travel document expired. He was later deported to Jordan, where he had been detained at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. His wife, a holder of a foreign passport, refused to stay in Jordan after the Jordanian authorities green-lighted her entry.
Fahd was also detained in Oman, to which he was deported from Jordan. He has gone homeless as India forced him back and, later, refused to let him in.
Activists expressed concern over his fate and slammed Arab countries for refusing to grant Fahd’s family, along with other Palestinians from Syria, asylum.
In May 2011, Jordan’s Policies Council, chaired by King Abdullah II, issued a decision to bar Palestinian refugees from Syria from entering Jordan.
Thousands of Palestinian refugees fled their refugee camps in war-torn Syria and have sought asylum in neighboring countries. Thousands headed for Europe, risking their lives onboard the so-called “death boats” as they rummaged around for safe shelters.
