May 2018

JLAC's Statement: 70 years on: the Nakba Continues

On 30 March, 2018, Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip waged a nonviolent protest movement demanding an end to Israel’s eleven-year blockade and the implementation of their internationally-recognized right of return.

Dubbed the “Great March of Return”, the protest movement drew tens of thousands of Palestinian women and men determined to keep calling for their most basic rights and freedoms. The majority of the participants in this ongoing protest movement are young refugees whose grandparents were displaced by Zionist forces during the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine where more than 750,000 Palestinians were displaced and 530 towns and villages were destroyed to make way for the creation of the State of Israel.

March 2018

Punitive Residency Revocation: the Most Recent Tool of Forcible Transfer

On 7 March 2018, the Israeli Parliament passed an amendment to the Entry into Israel Law which allows the Israeli Minister of Interior to revoke the permanent residency status from Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, who the Minister deems have 'breached allegiance’ to Israel. Residency revocation has long been used by Israel as a tool to forcibly transfer Palestinians from East Jerusalem, an occupied territory under international law, to reduce and eliminate Palestinian presence therein and to alter demographic facts on the ground. Since 1967, Israel created and consistently expanded the criteria for revoking the residency status of Palestinians from Jerusalem, of whom at least 14,500 had their residency revoked to date.

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