-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Iceland and Sweden plan to take in about 200 Palestinian refugees from Iraq who have been living in refugee camps along the Iraqi-Syrian border , the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday . More than two dozen refugees stranded at the Al Waleed refugee camp for the last two years will be headed to Iceland in the next few weeks , the agency said . In addition , 155 Palestinians in the Al Tanf refugee camp have been accepted for resettlement in Sweden , it said . Many Palestinians living in Iraq have gotten caught up in the violence that has engulfed the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and have had to flee their homes . The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said that out of the estimated 34,000 Palestinians who lived in Iraq since 2003 , about 10,000 to 15,000 remain . The UNHCR says about 2,300 Palestinians `` are living in desperate conditions along the Iraq-Syria border . '' They are , the UNHCR says , `` unable to return to Iraq or to cross the borders to neighboring countries . '' It says the Al Waleed camp has 1,400 people and Al Tanf about 900 . `` UNHCR has repeatedly called for international support for the Palestinians but with few results . Few Palestinians in the border camps have been accepted for resettlement or offered shelter in third countries ; 223 Palestinians left to non-traditional resettlement countries such as Brazil and Chile . `` Some urgent medical cases were taken by a few European countries , but this is a very small number out of the 2,300 Palestinians stranded in the desert , '' the UNHCR said in a statement . It noted that Sudan has made an offer to take in some of those Palestinians , and said `` UNHCR and Palestinian representatives are finalizing an operations plan that will enable this to take place . '' Refugees International recently asked the United States government to intervene and resettle the Palestinians in the United States instead of Sudan , which itself is engulfed in sectarian fighting and whose government has been condemned for atrocities . `` The Palestinians being resettled in Sudan is obviously not an ideal or preferred solution , '' State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper told CNN last month . `` But we accept the judgment of the UNHCR that it is preferable to the Palestinians continuing to be stranded in the border area in extremely dire circumstances . ''