BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee

Table of Contents
Executive Summary vii
Recommendations x
Glossary xiii
Abbreviations xx
Chapter One: From the Nakba to the Present Day: Ongoing Displacement
1.1 Background 3
1.2 From Mandate to Partition 5
1.3 The Nakba 9
1.4 Displacement after the 1948 War 13
1.5 The 1967 War 14
1.6 Israel’s Occupation Regime after 1967 and Ongoing Forced Displacement in the OPT 17
1.6.1 Deportation 17
1.6.2 Revocation of Residency Rights 17
1.6.3 Home Demolition 17
1.6.4 Land Confiscation 18
1.6.5 Colonization and Apartheid 18
1.6.6. Harassment of Jewish settlers 19
1.6.7 Israel’s Wall and its Associated Regime in the Occupied West Bank 19
1.6.8 The Closure and Permit Regime in the Jordan Valley 21
1.7 Ongoing Forced Displacement in Israel 22
1.7.1 Land Confiscation and Distribution 22
1.7.2 Arbitrary Displacement in the Naqab and Galilee 22
1.7.3 Home Demolition 23
1. 8 Forced Displacement in Host Countries 23
Appendix 1.1: Notes for Figure 1.1 26
Appendix 1.2 Notes for Table 1.1 29
Endnotes 32
Chapter Two: Population Numbers, Distribution and Characteristics
2.1 Background 43
2.2 Distribution 47
2.2.1 Refugees in Camps 50
2.2.2 Refugees Outside of Camps 56
2.3 Demographic Indicators 57
2.4 Labour Force Indicators 60
2.4.1 Labour Force Participation 60
2.4.2 Unemployment 61
2.5 Poverty 62
2.6 Housing 62
2.6.1 Overcrowding 63
2.7 Education 64
2.7.1 Enrolment 64
2.7.2 Literacy 65
2.8 Health 66
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