revocation of residency rights

Human Rights Watch: Israel must stop tearing Palestinian families apart

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 01:49

Human Rights Watch issued a 90-page report on Israeli occupation policies affecting Palestinian residency rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has arbitrarily denied thousands of Palestinians the ability to live in, and travel to and from, those areas, says the rights group.

Israel forcibly transfers Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 02:06

Ahmad Attoun, a lawmaker from the Hamas party, was expelled from Jerusalem today after Israeli forces released him from prison and took him to Qalandia checkpoint between the city and Ramallah.

Jerusalem baby denied rights by Israeli apartheid

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Silwan
22 June 2011

Israel’s decision to deny seven-month-old Nouralden Issa Abbassi a Jerusalem identification card — and by extension block his right to access public health services and education — has left his family anxious and concerned for the future.

Gaza family exiled to Syria and Libya looks back

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
21 June 2011

Abdelhai al-Khaldi and his family were among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the 1967 war, or who emigrated afterwards in search of work. Al-Khaldi and his wife spoke of their life of displacement to The Electronic Intifada contributor Rami Almeghari.

Palestinians silently transferred from East Jerusalem

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
19 April 2011

The Israeli government has been increasingly revoking Jerusalem residency IDs and using tax collection as a means of forcing Palestinians out of the city. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours reports.

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