The US-led war in Iraq has resulted in masses of refugees, many of them Palestinian-Iraqis, who now mostly reside in desert camps on the Iraq Syria border. After the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees pleaded with its member nations, Chile's government said it would allow 117 Palestinians to enter the South American country. FSRN's Jorge Garreton is in Chile, where a handful of Palestinian refugee families have arrived.

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