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Palestinian-Americans in Houston are working to get their families out of Gaza, but options remain limited. “Individuals have just exhausted all other possible avenues,” including lobbying the U.S. government to have their names added to the exit list, said Norman.

Displacement is all too familiar to Palestinians. Today, there are about 6 million Palestinian refugees scattered across three countries, the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. “I think up until this current conflict, it has kind of been a forgotten issue,” said Norman. “It’s seen as this just unresolvable displacement, ongoing for multiple generations without an end in sight.”

After the al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion, offering refuge to Palestinians became “politically untenable” for Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states, Norman said. “Now, even the U.S. is upholding the line that Egypt will not be complicit with the permanent removal of Palestinians from their territory, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing,” she said.

“I think both the U.K. and the U.S. do have moral duties to receive refugees from all over the world.” Kelsey Norman, director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program at Rice University, joined Nigel Farage on GBNews to discuss what should be done about refugees from Gaza.

In the context of the current Israel-Hamas conflict, Kelsey Norman, director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, discussed the issues for different countries around hosting refugees.