would not be applicable to Palestinians living in the Kingdom as the Arab League has instructed that Palestinians living in Arab countries should not be given citizenship to avoid dissolution of their identity and protect their right to return to their homeland.
Diplomatic sources have estimated the number of Palestinians in the Kingdom at about 500,000. There are large concentrations of Palestinians in the country’s western, central, eastern and northern provinces.
That no-no by the Arab League was decided back in 1959.
Here:
in 1959 the United Nations Secretary-General put forward proposals aimed inter alia at actively involving the refugees in the socioeconomic development of the Middle East at large and the wealthy Gulf states in particular. The Arab League rejected these proposals for they saw them as an indirect means of depopulating the camps and burying the right of return. It also argued that the socioeconomic development of the region should not be linked to the settlement of the refugee issue. On their part, the 45 representatives of nine refugee organisations based in Lebanon also rejected the proposals...
That rejection included the no citizenship granting in this decision: see page 88, note 129:
LASC/RES/1547 (531) of March 9, 1959
It's content also described thus:
Resolution 1547 of 9 March 195941, which encourages Arab states –– as a general rule –– to preserve the Palestinian nationality of the refugees...
in a publication entitled: Rights in Principle - Rights in Practice, Revisiting the Role of International Law in Crafting Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees, Terry Rempel, Editor, (here: BADIL Resource).
Is that a nice thing to do?
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