Passport to where? Most Palestinian refugees live either in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, and the three original “host countries” of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria who unwillingly accepted the first wave of refugees in 1948; these refugees are fully supported by UNRWA, and grows larger every year with no answers, of which the US has been the biggest contributor, and that also needs to stop.
The 1952 Residence Law and the 1992 Basic Law of Governance allow foreigners to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia. However, Saudi Arabia has not yet ratified the UN 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees.—How convenient for the heart of the Arab and Muslim world to not be part of the solution.
Then you have 12 million human beings displaced in Syria from their civil war, and then– UN News Organization January 2025—“Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. Addressing the Security Council on Monday, Edem Wosornu, Director of the Advocacy and Operations Division at the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) described the unfolding disaster as “a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions.”