Nationality and Cases of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa nationality.144 In Egypt, when the nationality law was amended in 2004 to allow Egyptian women to transmit nationality to their children on the same terms as men, children of Palestinian fathers were initially excluded. It was not until 2011, following further advocacy and public protest, that a supplementary decree was passed that gave children of Egyptian women and Palestinian men the entitlement to Egyptian nationality. Even thereafter, the implementation of this policy remained a challenge.145 In Jordan, although many Palestinians were initially extended nationality, decades later mass denationalisation has plunged thousands back into statelessness.146 Thus, as a result of the overriding reluctance of host states to incorporate Palestinians into their body of nationals, the vast majority face intergenerational statelessness and the prospect of naturalisation channels being opened up to them by their host states remains poor. 144 - See, for instance, on the exclusion of Palestinians from Lebanese nationality, M. el-Khoury, T. Jaulin, Country Report: Lebanon, EUDO Citizenship Observatory, September 2012. 145 - Some data on the number of children of Egyptian women and Palestinian men to benefit from the new policy over the course of 2011, as well as details of some of the difficulties in terms of the implementation of this policy, is available at http://eudo-citizenship.eu/citizenship-news/530-new-policy-onegyptian-citizenship-for-children-of-palestinian-fathers. Interviews conducted with affected families in early 2013 yielded reports of on-going barriers to the claiming of Egyptian nationality where the father is Palestinian, in particular for those born before the 2011 decree. See Women’s Refugee Commission, Our Motherland, Our Country. Gender Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa, June 2013. 146 - See, among others, Human Rights Watch, Stateless Again. Palestinianorigin Jordanians deprived of their nationality, 2010. 108