The Jordanians don't want another Palestinian in their territory and those that are present are watched like hawks.
History:
After the 1967
Six-Day War,
Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas relocated to Jordan and stepped up their attacks on Israel and the
occupied territories. They were headquartered at the Jordanian border town of Karameh, which Israel targeted during
a battle in 1968, leading to a surge of Arab support for the fedayeen. The PLO's strength grew, and by early 1970, groups within the PLO began calling for the overthrow of Jordan's
Hashemite monarchy, leading to violent clashes in June 1970. Hussein hesitated to oust them from the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the
Dawson's Field hijackings of 6 September 1970, when the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seized three civilian passenger flights and forced their landing in the Jordanian city of
Zarqa, where they took foreign nationals as hostages and blew up the planes in front of international press. Hussein saw this as the last straw and ordered the Jordanian Army to take action.
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On 17 September 1970, the Jordanian Army surrounded all cities with a significant PLO presence, including
Amman and
Irbid, and began shelling fedayeen posts, who were operating from
Palestinian refugee camps. The next day, 10,000 Syrian troops bearing
Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) markings began an invasion by advancing towards Irbid, which the fedayeen had occupied and declared to be a "liberated" city. On 22 September, the Syrians withdrew from Irbid after suffering heavy losses to a coordinated aerial–ground offensive by the Jordanians. Mounting pressure from other Arab countries, such as
Iraq, led Hussein to halt his offensive. On 13 October, he signed an agreement with Arafat to regulate the fedayeen's presence in Jordan. However, the Jordanian military attacked again in January 1971, and the Palestinians were driven out of the cities, one by one, until 2,000 fedayeen surrendered after they were encircled during the
Ajlun offensive on 17 July, formally marking the end of the conflict.
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Jordan allowed the fedayeen to relocate to
Lebanon via Syria. Four years later, the fedayeen became involved in the
Lebanese Civil War, which would continue until 1990. The Palestinian
Black September Organization was founded after the conflict to carry out attacks against Jordanian authorities in response to the fedayeen's expulsion; their most notable attack was the assassination of Jordanian prime minister
Wasfi Tal in 1971, as he had commanded parts of the military operations against the fedayeen. The organization then shifted its focus to attacking Israeli targets and later carried out the
Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes. Though the events of Black September did not reflect a Jordanian–Palestinian divide, as there were Jordanians and Palestinians on both sides of the conflict, it paved the way for such a divide to emerge subsequently.
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