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Schools Serve Generations of Palestinian Refugees

Many Students, Though, Were Born in Jordan and Hold Its Citizenship

Amman, Jordan

When students give their names for the first time at the Nuzha Preparatory Girls School No. 3 here in Jordan’s capital city, they also volunteer the names of towns and cities—such as Bethlehem, Jaffa, or Jerusalem—from which their families hail.

Those places are in what is now Israel or the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, controlled by Israel.

Most of the school’s 898 students, in fact, were born in Jordan; their families may have settled in this country as early as the late 1940s. But teachers and students at this school, the lion’s share of them of Palestinian origin, want to keep alive...