(When white phosphorus fails, try bureaucracy.)
For 27 years, between 1967 and 1994, Israel covertly canceled residency of over 140,000 West Bank Palestinians, reports Israeli news agency Haaretz.
Any Palestinian wishing to travel abroad to Jordan were ordered exchanging their ID cards at the border crossing for a card that would enable them to pass. Then, anyone not returning within six months of the card’s three-year expiration date, would be registered as NLR – no longer residents.
Officials claims they knew that a clear procedure was in place, but the details remained classified.
While the Jordan/West Bank crossing policy ending in 1994, a similar procedure is still in place for residents of East Jerusalem, who can still lose their right to return if they have been abroad for seven years.
Yet another injustice to tack onto the plight of the Palestinian people.
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