What middle east country's that have taken in Palestine refugees been attact by them
Executive summary
Several Middle Eastern states that long hosted Palestinian refugees have experienced violence connected to Palestinian armed groups: Jordan saw the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) establish bases and launch cross‑border operations that provoked a state security crisis, Lebanon’s refugee camps became battlefields and targets in wider civil and inter‑state conflicts, and Egypt has repeatedly warned that militants from Gaza could destabilize Sinai — a fear rooted in past militant activity and regional spillover risks [1] [2] [3]. The reporting available documents these broad patterns but does not provide a complete catalog of every incident or attribution of every attack to Palestinian actors.
1. Jordan: host, battleground, and the PLO’s forward base
Jordan took in large numbers of Palestinians after 1948 and again after 1967, and by the late 1960s the PLO had moved much of its leadership and armed activity into Jordanian territory, from which it conducted cross‑border raids against Israel and at times challenged Amman’s authority; Reuters notes the PLO “moved to Jordan” and “carried out cross‑border attacks on Israel and threatened the rule of King Hussein,” framing Jordan as both host and theater of Palestinian militant operations [1]. That dynamic fed the 1970–71 confrontation often called Black September — a historical episode implied by Reuters’ summary of PLO activity even if the source does not fully recount every detail — and underpins contemporary Jordanian reluctance to accept further mass influxes for fear of security and demographic destabilization [1] [3].
2. Lebanon: camps as conflict zones and targets of militias
Lebanon became a principal refuge for Palestinians in 1948 and evolved into a complex, armed environment where refugee camps were regularly drawn into local and regional fighting; Reuters reports that “Palestinian refugee camps became a regular target of Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese militias” as competing forces fought for control inside Lebanon, underscoring that Palestinians in Lebanon have not only been displaced but also both actors in and victims of violence on Lebanese soil [1]. Human rights and policy reporting referenced in the sources further documents that Lebanon’s official stance has constrained Palestinian civil rights to avoid permanent absorption, a political calculation that intersects with the security history of armed Palestinian factions operating from Lebanese territory [1] [4].
3. Egypt and Sinai: fear of militant spillover from Gaza
Egypt hosts far fewer Palestinians permanently than Jordan or Lebanon, but Cairo has repeatedly expressed acute sensitivity to militant activity in the Sinai and to the prospect that Gaza’s militants could use Sinai as a staging ground; AP and PBS reporting quote Egyptian leaders warning a mass exodus from Gaza could “bring militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula” and imperil the 40‑year peace treaty with Israel, a strategic calculation that has helped drive Egypt’s consistent refusal to accept large numbers of Gaza refugees [2] [3]. Those statements reflect both historical precedent of cross‑border militant threats and contemporary security concerns, though the sources stress government fear more than listing specific Egyptian attacks carried out by Palestinians on Egyptian territory [2] [3].
4. Syria and other hosts: integration, militarization, and limits of available reporting
Syria historically hosted Palestinian refugees and at times integrated them into state structures — the Wikipedia summary notes Palestinians in Syria faced a unique mix of statelessness and, under Assad, access to many social and economic rights including conscription — but the sources provided do not catalogue a comprehensive set of attacks carried out by Palestinian actors inside Syria or other host states beyond the broader regional patterns already described [5]. Reuters’ broader regional overview highlights that Arab states’ ties with Palestinian groups have been “strained” by security and sectarian tensions, indicating episodes of militarized confrontation in various countries, yet the materials at hand stop short of naming every attack or giving a definitive list attributable exclusively to Palestinian perpetrators [1].
5. What the sources don’t allow: limits and necessary caution
The reporting assembled establishes that Jordan, Lebanon and, to a degree, Egypt have experienced violence related to Palestinian armed groups or feared spillover from Gaza‑based militants, but it does not provide an exhaustive, incident‑by‑incident accounting or legal attributions for each event; where sources describe patterns — PLO bases in Jordan, camps targeted in Lebanon, Egyptian security fears about Sinai — those claims can be cited, while any finer claims about specific attacks beyond the cited summaries would exceed what these sources substantiate [1] [2] [3] [5].