Corvallis Gazette-Times · Corvallis, Oregon · 8 April 1997

CP-1997-021

Groups: Rights to Jerusalem revoked

Human rights groups say Israel is trying to tighten its grip on the city

By Hilary Appelman, The Associated Press

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JERUSALEM — Away from the bulldozers and stone-throwing, another battle for Jerusalem is under way. Palestinians and Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel is quietly and deliberately revoking residency rights of Palestinians who live in Jerusalem in order to strengthen its grip on the disputed city.

The policy is not new: Palestinians who don’t become Israeli citizens and who move outside the city — even to the West Bank — can lose their residency permits, which means they cannot legally return to live in Jerusalem. Only now, the groups say, the Israeli government is enforcing the policy with new vigor.

Palestinians returning after living elsewhere have been notified that their permits have expired and they have 15 days to get out. “The idea is simple,” Yuval Ginbar of the Israeli group Betselem said Monday. “Israel will do anything to make Palestinians leave Jerusalem.”

Betselem and Hamoked, another Israeli human rights group, issued a report Monday accusing Israel of revoking the rights of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Palestinians to live in Jerusalem during the past 18 months.

Betselem’s Yael Stein said the policy was part of the government’s goal to “decrease the number of Palestinians and increase the number of Jews living in the city.”

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