A new report by JLAC: Data Analysis on Revoking Residency, Family Unification,  and Child Registration 

Israel’s policy to repress, discipline, and displace Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem rests as heavily upon bureaucracy and legally-sanctioned demographic engineering as it does on direct force.

The right of Palestinian Jerusalemites to the city is violated by Israel’s discriminatory construction and planning policies, home demolitions, and the systematic denial of building permits. The very existence of Palestinians in their own city is made extremely precarious by Israel’s draconian implementation of residency revocation. The routine of registering their children is turned into a draining process. And they can be deprived of their universally-recognized human right to live with their families under the same roof solely for having a spouse from the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.
To get a better understanding of Israel’s complex apparatus of permits, and to quantify the extent of its influence on the life of Palestinians, the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC) submitted a formal request to the Israeli Ministry of Interior for official figures regarding residency revocation, child registration and family unification in Jerusalem. Figures provided by the Ministry of Interior at Occupied Jerusalem pertain to the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and through the first eight months of 2017.

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