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Continuing Exodus: Jordan River

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February 1968

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

A new temporary bridge across the Jordan River, near the destroyed Allenby Bridge, now links Jordan and the West Bank which has been occupied by Israel since June 1967. In the months following the hostilities thousands of new refugees - many of them from the Gaza Strip - crossed to east Jordan and the flow, though diminished, still continues.

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Continuing Exodus: Jordan River

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June 1967 War