Jerash

JERASH, Jordan — Izzaat Al-Hindi trudged down a passageway of the Jerash Refugee Camp, navigating potholes, garbage piles and drab, dilapidated buildings.

As President Trump proposes forcibly relocating as many as 2 million Palestinians from Gaza Strip into ramshackle camps like this one, many of the some 35,000 refugees in Jerash have a message for their brethren.

In 1968, Some 11,500 were brought to Jerash, a few miles from the city’s magnificent Roman ruins.

Ayman Bakkar, who serves as the chief of UNRWA’s office in northern Jordan, said more than half of residents in the Jerash Refugee Camp are unemployed.

Back at the Jerash Refugee Camp, Nimr Rmeilat, an octogenarian sitting with friends in a yard smoking a water pipe, said he and others would wait and see what plan Arab nations would come up with.