BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee

From the Nakba to the Present Day – Ongoing Displacement
94 Following the war in 1967, Israel annexed some 70² kilometres adjacent to the municipal boundaries of West Jerusalem. These
annexed territory include 28 West Bank villages. In this annexed area, the Israeli government established 15 Jewish colonies. Despite
the fact that no state recognizes Israel’s annexation of the East side of the city, Israel has focused much of its colonial activities in
and around East Jerusalem for demographic purposes, culminating in the Wall. “Access to Jerusalem – New Military Order Limits
West Bank Palestinian Access”, Humanitarian Update, Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jerusalem:
February 2006, p. 2. See also Security Council Resolutions 252, 21 May 1968, Security Council Res. 298, 25 September 1971,
Security Council Resolution 478, 20 August 1980. For an overview, see Shehadeh, Raja, Occupier’s Law: Israel and the West Bank.
Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1985, pp. 63–75. “The illegal annexation of Jerusalem was first brought about
by an amendment to the Law and Administrative Ordinance 1948, passed on 27 June 1967, which held, ‘the law, jurisdiction and
administration of the state shall extend to any area of Eretz [Land] Israel designated by the government by order.’” “East Jerusalem
Remains Occupied Territory Under International Law,” Press Release, Ramallah: Al-Haq, 30 June 2005. For the response by
the United Nations, see Resolution 252 which “[c]onsiders that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by
Israel, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and
cannot change that status.” UNSC, Resolution 252, 21 May 1968. Read also Resolution 478 affirming that “the enactment of
the ‘basic law’ by Israel constitutes a violation of international law and does not affect the continued application of the Fourth
Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War in the Palestinian and other
Arab territory occupied since June 1967, including Jerusalem” and “[d]etermines that all legislative and administrative measures
and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City
of Jerusalem, and in particular the recent ‘basic law’ on Jerusalem, are null and void and must be rescinded forthwith.” UNSC,
Resolution 478, 20 August 1980. See also Security Council Resolutions 267 (1969); 298 (1971); 446 (1979); 465 (1980); 476
(1980); 605 (1987).
95 Around 8,000 settlers were removed from the occupied Gaza Strip and 500 from the occupied West Bank, representing less than
2% of the entire settler population in the OPT.
96 Table 5, “Palestinian Estimate of Displaced Persons and Refugees During the 1967 War,” Amro, Tayseer, “Displaced Persons:
Categories and Numbers Used by the Palestinian Delegation [to the Quadripartite Committee], 14 Article 74 (December 1995).
Jerusalem: BADIL/Alternative Information Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. The figure roughly coincides
with Israeli figures if Palestinians deported to Egypt during the 1967 war are not included. Deportation of Palestinians from the
Occupied Territory and the Mass Deportation of December 1992. Jerusalem: B’tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human
Rights in the Occupied Territory, 1993.
97 According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, since the beginning of the intifada until 2004, Israel has deported approximately
50 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to the Gaza Strip to “assign residence”. The Annual Report for 2004, Gaza
Strip: Palestinian Center for Human Rights, May 2005, p. 40. “Under a secret agreement brokered with international assistance,
39 of the Palestinians were deported or transferred on 10 May 2002, 26 of them to the Gaza Strip and 13 others abroad, mainly
to Europe.” Coakley, Kate and Marko Divac Oberg, “Israel’s Deportations and Forcible Transfers of Palestinians out of the West
Bank During the Second Intifada” Occasional Paper 15, Ramallah: Al Haq, April 2006, p. 3.
98 Quigley, John, “Family Reunion and the Right to Return to Occupied Territory,” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 6 (1992).
Between 1967 and 1999, Israel revoked the residency rights of 6,185 Palestinians living in Jerusalem, affecting some 25,000 people.
Table III, “Confiscation of Jerusalem ID Cards, 1967–1998,” Eviction from Jerusalem, Restitution and the Protection of Palestinian
Rights. Bethlehem: BADIL Resource Center, 1999, p. 19. The table is updated to the end of 1999 with available statistics from
the Israeli Interior Ministry.
99 Families Torn Apart, Separation of Palestinian Families in the Occupied Territory. Jerusalem: B’tselem, Israeli Information Center
for Human Rights in the Occupied Territory, 1999, p. 17. For eastern Jerusalem, see Krystall, Nathan, Urgent Issues of Palestinian
Residency in Jerusalem, second revised edition, Jerusalem: Alternative Information Center, 1994; and The Quiet Deportation:
Revocation of Residency of East Jerusalem Palestinians. Jerusalem: B’tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in
the Occupied Territory; and Hamoked, Center for the Defence of the Individual, 1997.
100 Impact of the Israeli Measures. Survey on the Well-being of the Palestinian Children, Women, and the Palestinian Households. Ramallah:
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, June 2001.
101 Shahar, Ilan, “You win some residents, you lose some residents”, Ha’aretz, 4 April 2007. Jerusalem and West Bank IDs were introduced
by Israel in 1967 to differentiate between Palestinians living in 1967 Israeli-occupied and annexed Jerusalem and those
living other areas of the occupied West Bank. West Bank ID holders have not been able to enter Jerusalem without a permit since
1993.
102 Campaign Against House Demolitions, Jerusalem: Israeli Committee Against House Demolition.
103 UNRWA Accommodation Office.
104 Report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, 1 July 2004
– 30 June 2005. UN GAOR, Sixtieth Session, Supp. No. 13 (A/60/13), 2005 para. 214, p. 51.
105 Report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, 1 July
2004–30 June 2005. UN GAOR, Sixtieth Session, Supp. No. 13 (A/60/13), 2005, para. 214, p. 51. Humanitarian Update,
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