Jordan: Informal Camp Residents Displaced

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Amman, Jordan, February 11, 2024. © 2024 Alexis Jumeau/Abaca/Sipa via AP Photo (Amman) – Jordanian authorities have forcibly evicted and demolished homes and shops in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without adequate consultation, notice, compensation process, relocation assistance, or means of redress as part of a road expansion project, Human Rights Watch said today. More families are expected to be affected as the project continues.The urban development project displaced scores of residents of al-Mahatta (Station) camp, and the government’s…

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