JERUSALEM — Israel revoked the residency of nearly 250,000 Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, according to Israeli military figures obtained by a human rights group and seen yesterday.
A letter sent to Israeli NGO HaMoked shows Israel stripped the residency of more than 100,000 people living in Gaza and about 140,000 people living in the West Bank after it occupied the Palestinian territories in 1967.
Palestinians lost their residency for various reasons, including for failing to respond to a census.
Others saw their residency revoked after travelling overseas and failing to periodically renew their permits.
But rights groups say the renewal process was never explained to Palestinians who travelled abroad to study or work only to discover they had missed the renewal deadline and therefore lost their residency.
And the total number affected by the revocations is believed to be higher than the official figure because entire families were sometimes forced to leave their homes after one member had their residency revoked. more
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