Palestinians and the Search for Protection as Refugees and Stateless Persons June 2022 © All Rights Reserved, 2022 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights European Network on Statelessness Cover Image Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/m8Vl9_5oDzI Layout & Design: Atallah Salem This report was drafted by Cynthia Orchard (BA, JD, MSt). Cynthia worked as a consultant with BADIL and the European Network on Statelessness for this project. She also works separately as a consultant with Kids in Need of Defense UK. She coordinated Asylum Aid’s statelessness project for several years and has worked previously with BADIL, ENS, and other NGOs, as well as UNHCR’s London office and the University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre. She is an individual member of ENS and serves on ENS’s Advisory Committee. This report is based in part on previous publications, including: Cynthia Orchard, Case note: ‘Germany v XT (CJEU, 2021): Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, and Article 1D of the Refugee Convention,’ Statelessness and Citizenship Review (July 2021); Cynthia Orchard, ‘Palestinian Refugees: How Article 1D of the Refugee Convention Applies’ (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, 25 Feb 2016, available to ILPA members here; and Susan Akram and Nidal Al-Azza (eds), Closing Protection Gaps: Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees in States Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention (2nd ed) (BADIL, Feb 2015) (with which Cynthia assisted). Many thanks to Nidal al-Azza and others at BADIL for initiating and guiding this research; and to Susan Akram, Lubnah Shomali, Saif Kassis, Patricia Cabral, Nina Murray, Marjan Claes, and Jesús Tolmo for comments on a draft of this report and other helpful contributions; and to Marlotte van Dael, Marek Linha, S Chelvan, Helena Marambio, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and others who provided summaries, translations, and information relating to relevant cases and/or government policies. Summaries of most cases referred to in this report, and other related jurisprudence, are available in the European Network on Statelessness’ (ENS) Statelessness Case Law Database, available at https://caselaw.statelessness.eu/ BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights Karkafa St. PO Box 728, Bethlehem, West Bank; Palestine Tel.: +970-2-277-7086; Fax: +970-2-274-7346 Website: www.badil.org European Network on Statelessness London, United Kingdom Media: +44 7522 525673 info@statelessness.eu www.statelessness.eu The European Network on Statelessness is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation in England. Charity Number 1158414.