Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Kubuda kwevaPalestine kubva kuKuwait kwakaitika panguva uye mushure meHondo yeGulf. Paiva navaPalestine 400 000 vaigara muKuwait nyika yacho isati yapindirwa
neIrak yakavakidzana muna August 1990. Munguva yokurwiswa kwakazoitwa nyika neuto reIraq, vanhu vokuPalestine vanenge 200 000 vakabva munyika yacho nokuda kwezvikonzero zvakasiyana-siyana zvakadai sokutya kutambudzwa, kushayikwa kwezvokudya uye kurapwa, matambudziko emari, uye kutya kusungwa kana kubatwa zvisina kunaka pamigwagwa nemasoja eIraq. Pashure peOperation Desert Storm, iyo yakaona mauto eIraq achikundwa uye achidzingwa muKuwait neboka raitungamirirwa neUnited States, vamwe vanhu vechiPalestine 200 000 vakatiza Kuwait, zvimwe nemhaka yemitoro yezvemari, mitemo pamusoro pokugara uye kutya kushungurudzwa nemauto okuchengetedzwa kweKuwait. Gadziriro iyo yakatungamirira mukubuda uku yakanga iri mhinduro kukuwirirana kwePalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) mukufarira kupindirwa kweIraq pamwe chete nokutsigira kwomutungamiri wePLO Yasser Arafat kuna Saddam Hussein, panguva iyoyo Mutungamiri weIraq.