"Ceased Residency": between 1967 and 1994 Israel revoked the residency of some quarter million Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza strip

from the website of Human Rights Watch

"Ceased Residency": between 1967 and 1994 Israel revoked the residency of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians

Response by the Military Legal Advisor for the West Bank to HaMoked's letter regarding the Order on the Prevention of Infiltration and the Order on Security Provisions. The legal adviser states he has not deemed it necessary to revoke the legal amendments or postpone their entry into force. He states that people born in the West Bank are not considered "infiltrators"; that punishment in this ar...

HaMoked has obtained the release of a Palestinian youth who was held in custody for two and a half years pursuant to a warrant for his deportation to Jordan. Israel claims his presence in the Occupied Territories is illegal and intends to deport him to a place to which he has no ties. HaMoked obtained the release of a Palestinian youth who was held in custody for two and a half years pursuant t...

In response to HaMoked's petition under the Freedom of Information Act, the Interior Ministry provided data regarding the scope of residency revocation in East Jerusalem: Between 2005 and 2007, 1,869 permanent residents of Jerusalem were revoked of their residency, including 91 minors

Following a HaMoked petition, a Palestinian woman who belongs to the “Second HCJ Population” received a permit to visit the Territories: The appellant entered the Territories in 1993 with a visitor’s permit from the Ministry of the Interior, and applied to convert this into a permit for the Territories permitting a longer visit. The military claimed that the appellant did not belong to the abov...

Israeli officials deleted the names of long-serving Palestinian prisoners from the Population Registry and are evading requests to restore the names: The Legal Advisor for the West Bank argues that the restoring of registration should be implemented by the Palestinian side, despite the fact that in the past the advisor has admitted that the responsibility for the “error” and its correction rest...

Following a petition filed by HaMoked, the army announced that it decided to permit the return of a Palestinian who in 1970 had been deported from the area to Jordan. The petitioner, together with eight other detainees, had been detained in Israel and deported in June 1970, penniless, to Jordan: He was deported without having been given a proper opportunity to state his case. The petitioner, wh...

Perpetual Limbo – A new report by HaMoked and B’Tselem: This is the second report in a series examining Israeli policy imposing separation on nuclear families in the Occupied Territories. The report focuses on Israel’s policy since the outbreak of the second intifada, including the total freeze on the processing of family unification in the Territories. This makes the lives of thousands of Pale...

Second report by HaMoked and B'Tselem on Israel's policy which forces nuclear families in the Territories to live separately. The report focuses on Israel's policy since the second intifada, which freezes processing of family unification applications in the Territories, making the lives of thousands of Palestinian families impossible.

The HCJ dismisses the petition of an East Jerusalem resident who relocated to the USA for studies, acquired American citizenship, and when wishing to return to Jerusalem, was told his residency had been revoked and that he was to be deported. The HCJ ruled that the status of East Jerusalem Palestinians is regulated by the Entry into Israel Law, which defines their permanent residency permits. I...