ISRAEL REVOKES RESIDENCY OF 4,901 JERUSALEMITES IN 2 YEARS

As part of its efforts to Judaise Jerusalem, the Israeli Interior Ministry revoked the residency of 4,901 East Jerusalemites in the last two year, Palestinian human rights organisation revealed on April 30. The Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) said in a press statement that the Israeli Interior Ministry revoked the residency of 229 Jerusalemites in 2009 and 4672 residents in 2008. The centre said its report was based on data it received from the Israeli ministry. JCSER added that 30,000 Jerusalemites lost their residency since Israel started implementing its expulsion and ethnic cleansing in the city in early 1990s. According to the centre, around 165,000 Jerusalemites under the threat of losing their residency in Jerusalem since they are living east of the wall that separates disputed city from the occupied West Bank. The centre said that the Jewish-dominated Jerusalem municipality admitted for the first time that Israel got rid 55,000 Jerusalemites in the last years due to the separation wall and that they lost their right to reside in the city. JCSER added that municipality’s statistics only include those living in the East Jerusalem’s Sho‘fat refugee camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Shihadeh and al-Salam neighbourhood.