""Palestinians constitute about one-half of Jordan's population (about 2.2 million Palestinians), and most of these Palestinians are Sunni Muslim. A people without a sovereign state of its own, Jordan's Palestinian community is comprised of those who found themselves under Jordanian rule when part of Palestine was incorporated into Transjordan upon its foundation in 1946 and those who fled to Jordan as a result of Israel's 1948 War of Independence and the 1967 Six-Day War, in which Israel occupied the Palestinian-populated West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians range from prominent individuals assimilated fully into Jordanian society to impoverished refugees.""

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