THE ISRAELI INFORMATION CENTER FOR
IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
 

Statistics on Revocation of Residency Rights

Year
No. of Palestinians whose residency was revoked
1967
105
1968
395
1969
178
1970
327
1971
126
1972
93
1973
77
1974
45
1975
54
1976
42
1977
35
1978
36
1979
91
1980
158
1981
51
1982
74
1983
616
1984
161
1985
99
1986
84
1987

23

1988
2
1989
32
1990
36
1991
20
1992
41
1993
32
1994
45
1995
91
1996
739
1997
1,067
1998
788
1999
411
2000
207
Till End of April 2001
15
2002
No Data
2003
272
2004
16
2005
222
2006
1,363
Total
8,269

Rationale for revocation according to the Ministry of Interior

Year Rationale for Revocation
 
Relocation Abroad
Relocation to the Occupied Territories
1997
1,003
68
1998
618
170
1999
290
121
2000
204
3
2001
15
0

Note: In 2003, the Ministry of Interior reinstated the residency rights of 83 Palestinians whose residency had been revoked, and in 2004 it reinstated the rights of 16 Palestinians.

Source: Ministry of the Interior (figures until 1994 are taken from the letter of attorney Moriah Bakshi, of the legal department of the Ministry of the Interior, to attorney Malhiel Blass, of the State Attorney's Office, in HCJ 7316/75. The figures for 1995 to 1998 are taken from a compilation prepared by the Ministry of the Interior in preparation for the visit of the new Minister of the Interior at the Population Registry Office in East Jerusalem, which took place on 19 July 1999. Figures for 1999 were provided to B'Tselem by the Ministry of the Interior on 13 February 2000.
Figures for 2003 and 2004 were provided to the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights by the Department for Strategic Planning of the Interior Ministry in letters from 16 June and 5 August 2004.

 
Background
Legal status
Separation Barrier in Jerusalem
Family unification and child registration
Revocation of residency
Revocation of social rights
Planning, building and expropriation of land
Neglect of infrastructure and services
Data on revocation of residency
Data on demolition of houses built without permits
Data on land expropriation
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