BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee

Protection
and Population Registry (1968); and Order No. 297 Relating to Identity Cards and Population Registry (1969).
77 Under the Oslo agreements, residency issues are handled jointly by the Israeli District Co-ordination Office (DCO) and the Civil Affairs
Committee of the Palestinian Authority (CAC). Agreements between Israel and the PLO eliminated extended residence abroad as a
criterion for revocation of residency rights, and provided for a joint Israeli-Palestinian committee to find solutions for those persons from
the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip whose residency rights were revoked by Israel. This committee was never established, however,
and the issue remains unresolved. For further discussion, see Jamal, Manal and Darwish, Buthaina, Exposed Realities: Palestinian Residency
Rights in the “Self Rule Areas” Three Years After Partial Israeli Redeployment. Bethlehem: BADIL Alternative Information Center, 1997.
78 Between 1967 and 1994, Israel revoked the residency status of some 100,000 Palestinian residents of these territory. Kadman, Noga,
Families Torn Apart: Separation of Palestinian Families in the Occupied Territory. Jerusalem: Btselem – Israeli Center for Human Rights in
the Occupied Territory, 1999, p. 18.
79 On 28 June 1967, Israel annexed the Old City of Jerusalem on the decision of the Ministry of Interior. On 30 June 1980, the Knesset
[Israeli Parliament] adopted the “Jerusalem Basic Law”, officially annexing the pre-1967 Palestinian eastern part of the city of Jerusalem
and additional occupied West Bank areas.
80 For eastern Jerusalem, see Entry to Israel Law (1952). Palestinians residing in occupied eastern Jerusalem hold blue Israeli-issued ID cards.
In eastern Jerusalem, Israel revoked the residency status of some 6,000 Palestinians between 1967 and 1999, affecting more than 25,000
persons. Table III, “Confiscation of Jerusalem ID Cards, 1967–1998”, Eviction from Jerusalem: Restitution and the Protection of Palestinian
Rights. Bethlehem: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 1999, p. 19.
81 Military Order No. 25 Concerning Transactions in Real Property (1967); Military Order No. 58 Concerning Abandoned Property
(Private Property) (1967) (the Gaza version of the military order is identical but differently numbered); Military Order No. 59 Concerning
Government Properties (1967); Military Order No. 150 Concerning Abandoned Property of Private Individuals [in the West Bank]
(Additional Provisions) (1967); Military Order No. 321 Regarding the Lands Law (Acquisition for Public Needs) (1969) (amending
the 1953 Jordanian Land Law – Acquisition for Public Needs, Law No. 2 for 1953); Military Order No. 364 Concerning Government
Properties (Amendment No. 4) (1969); Military Order 569 Concerning the Registration of Special Transactions in Land (1974); Military
Order No. 949 Regarding the Lands Law (Acquisition for Public Needs) (1981); Military Order 1060 Concerning Law on Registration
of Unregistered Immovable Property (Amendment No. 2) (1983). In addition, Israeli military commanders have at times issued orders
for the requisition of privately owned Palestinian land for military purposes.
82 See Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, submitted to the Secretary General for Transmission to the Members of
the United Nations. UN GAOR, 3rd Sess., Supp. No. 11, UN Doc. A/648, 16 September 1948, Part One: The Mediation Effort, V.
Refugees.
83 Article VI(1)(d), Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area, 4 May 1994. The front cover of the “passport” includes the phrase “travel
document”. The passport is issued jointly by the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli military administration. However, restrictions on
freedom of movement in the 1967-occupied Palestinian territory may prevent Palestinians from reaching exit crossings in the occupied
West Bank and Gaza Strip. For further discussion of these changes, see Jamal, Manal and Darwish, Buthaina, Exposed Realities: Palestinian
Residency Rights in the “Self Rule Areas” Three Years After Partial Israeli Redeployment. Bethlehem: BADIL Alternative Information Center,
1997.
84 Prior to 1995, Palestinians were issued two-year documents. Between 1948 and 1967, Palestinian residents of the West Bank were able
to travel abroad on passports issued by the Jordanian government. After 1967, Israel required Palestinian residents of the occupied territory
to obtain special permits to travel abroad. In July 1988, the King of Jordan announced that “legal and administrative links” between
the East and West Bank would be severed. West Bank Palestinians who held Jordanian passports thus lost their right to citizenship and
residence in Jordan. Palestinian residents of the occupied Gaza Strip were able to travel abroad on special travel documents issued by the
All Palestine Government until 1960, when they were replaced with Egyptian travel documents. After 1967, they also required special
Israeli-issued permits.
85 Palestinians seeking to leave and return via land crossings with Jordan and Egypt face frequent restrictions and delays upon exit and
entry.
86 During the 1990s, Arab human rights and refugee law experts in the region participated in a joint process with the UNHCR and the San
Remo Institute for Humanitarian Law, resulting in the draft 1992 Cairo Declaration on the Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons in
the Arab World. The draft Cairo Declaration delineates principles for the protection of refugees and displaced persons in the Arab world,
but does not have the legal status of a Convention. The declaration emphasizes the need to ensure international protection for Palestinian
refugees, encourages Arab states that have not done so to accede to the 1951 Refugee Convention, and calls upon Arab states to provide
the League of Arab States with relevant information concerning the status of Palestinian refugees in host countries. It also calls upon Arab
states to adopt an Arab convention on refugees that includes broad definitions of “refugee” and “displaced person”.
87 Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen are signatories, but host only small numbers of
Palestinian refugees. According to UNHCR statistical reports for 2004, there were 4,000 Palestinian refugees of concern to UNHCR in
Algeria, 70,200 in Egypt, 810 in Morocco and 440 in Yemen. Table of Estimated number of Palestinians of Concern to UNHCR at the
end of 2004, statistics provided by the UNHCR.
153