Recommendations The BADIL Resource Center urges the state of Israel to: • Unfreeze family unifications, process them without limitations (including quotas) and expedite the processing of backlogged requests; • Cancel the freeze on child registration. Further impetus for this requirement arises from Israel’s status as a party to the Convention of the Rights of the Child; • End State practice of the “center of life” policy; • Reinstate residency status to all whose residency was arbitrarily revoked, and allow them and their families to return to their homes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and Israel proper; • Recognize the rights of individuals not registered in the 1967 census of the occupied Palestinian territory on account of their flight or displacement during the fighting, or were abroad for any other reason at that time; • Establish procedures to ensure that new residency applications are processed expeditiously, rather than adding to the large existing backlog, and that applicants are informed in writing of specific reasons for the denial of applications; • Relinquish control of the Population Registry in the occupied Palestinian territory. To the Palestine Liberation Organization: • Promote a rights-based durable solution for displaced persons; • Ratify the Rome Statute and immediately engage the International Criminal Court with the task of examining Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity; • Reject the fragmentation of Palestine and Palestinian communities by establishing a register for all Palestinians worldwide. 57