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Choosing place of residence


Legal Activity

Application under the Freedom of Information Act for information on protocols relating to address changes from Gaza to the West Bank as part of the political gesture
Application of June 28, 2012 (Read More)

Following Gisha’s request: COGAT website publishes criteria for travel between the Gaza Strip and Israel
Published April 31, 2012 (Read More)

Procedure for handling Applications by Gaza Strip Residents for settlement in the Judea and Samaria Area
From 3.8.2009 (Read More)

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Media

Israeli High Court to hear petition challenging refusal to update addresses in the Palestinian population registry and the forced removal of West Bank residents to Gaza on the basis of old addresses
Released on April 4, 2011 (Read More)

Rights Groups Challenge Military Order against West Bank Infiltrators
Released on April 15, 2010 (Read More)

13 Human Rights Organizations Petition the Supreme Court: Israel Should Not Determine Which Parent a Palestinian Child Lives with
Released on March 15, 2010 (Read More)

IDF Insists: Berlanty Azzam can not complete the final 2 months of her degree in Bethlehem
Released on November 24, 2009 (Read More)

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Reports & Data

Separation of Families due to the Separation between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
May 2010. The policy of separation between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank creates an almost impermeable barrier between the two areas, preventing routine contacts between members of extended families as well as violating the integrity of nuclear families, separating couples and keeping parents apart from their children. (Read More)

FAQs: family unification between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
May 2010. Gisha explains what prevents residents of the Gaza Strip from moving to the West Bank for family reunification, describes the strict criteria for such travel and explains that the travel ban is not due to concrete security threats posed by the family members. (Read More)

Restrictions and Removal: Israel's double bind policy for Palestinians holders of Gaza IDs in the West Bank
November 2009. Beginning in approximately 2003, Israel began to prohibit Palestinians whose registered address is in Gaza from being in the West Bank – even if they had been living in the West Bank for years. Thousands of Palestinians, whose registered address is in Gaza, live in hiding in the West Bank, and the unlucky ones are caught and removed to Gaza (Read More)

New Procedure - Israel bars Palestinians in Gaza from moving to West Bank
June 2009. This joint position paper by HaMoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual and Gisha describes a new procedure according to which Israel imposes strict criteria for relocation of residence from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, thereby erecting a new and virtually insurmountable obstacle between the two areas. (Read More)

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