Strip, resulted in a transfer of powers over movement and residency to the Palestinian National Authority.18 Almost immediately after the 1967 War, Israel conducted a census in annexed East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory. The 1967 census counted nearly 1 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.19 66,000 Palestinians were recorded in East Jerusalem.20 Not included in the census were the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced during the war and those who were outside of the country for personal reasons such as studies, work, or travel.21 Those registered in the census were granted color-coded Israeli residency cards: blue for residents of annexed East Jerusalem, green for residents of the rest of the West Bank, and orange for residents of the Gaza Strip. This administrative system22 was also paired with a set of “prevention of infiltration” military orders that function exactly like the 1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law (introduced to prevent 1948 Palestinian refugees returning to their homes and villages) which criminalized the movement of displaced Palestinians to their places of origin.23 Both versions of the residency system – that in place in Jerusalem under Israeli civil law and that in the rest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under Israeli military law – include mechanisms for revoking residency statuses. Residents require exit permits (subject to the complete discretion of the Israeli Minister of the Interior) to travel abroad. Between 1967 and 1994, Israel regarded Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory as “resident aliens”. If a resident failed to return before the expiry of their permit they risk being deleted from the Population Registry, thereby losing their residency status.24 In practice, during those 27 years Israel stripped the residency rights 18 BADIL, “Revocation of Residency Rights,” Article 74, January 19, 2010, http://www.badil.org/en/ article74/item/1367-revocation-of-residency-rights/1367-revocation-of-residency-rights. 19 Human Rights Watch, Forget About Him; Also see: BADIL and COHRE, Ruling Palestine – A History of the Legally Sanctioned Jewish-Israeli Seizure of Land and Housing in Palestine (Geneva, Switzerland; Bethlehem, Palestine: COHRE - Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions; BADIL Resource Centre for Palestinian Rights and Refugee Rights, 2005), 125. 20 Yael Stein, The Quiet Deportation: Revocation of Residency of East Jerusalem Palestinians. 21 BADIL, Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2010-2012, vol. VII (Bethlehem, Palestine, 2012). 22 John Quigley, “Family Reunion and the Rights to Return to Occupied Territory,” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 6 (1992): 6 Israel could do so, because it is in control of the population registry; only those Palestinians (and their offspring) registered in Israel’s September 1967 census are registered as legal residents of the occupied Palestinian Territory. Also see: Kadman and Pearson, Families Torn Apart, Separation of Palestinian Families in the Occupied Territory, 17. 23 Munir Nuseibah, “Decades of Displacing Palestinians: How Israel Does It,” Al-Shabaka, accessed March 28, 2014, http://al-shabaka.org/node/624. 24 Ibid. 18