revoked the citizenship of Palestinian citizens, it never done so for Jewish Israelis. In recent years, Israel and its right-wing coalition governments have increasingly eased the revocation of citizenship and used new laws such as the Nationality Law to target Palestinians.51 Palestinian citizens of Israel living in the Gaza Strip Palestinian citizens of Israel who married Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip during the 1980s and 1990s, and wanted to reside in the Gaza Strip and be eligible for municipal services were asked to sign a document in Hebrew, unknowingly declaring their renunciation of their Israeli citizenship.52 Some women who requested to move back to Israel with their children, for reasons such as divorce or becoming widowed etc., found out that they had lost any legal status in Israel, and that their citizenships were revoked. Thus, their presence in Israel is considered ‘illegal’, and they are not eligible to any social security services (health care, education, pensions etc.).53 The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court against the revocation of the Israeli citizenship on behalf of seven women. The Association asked for the return of their citizenship, and argued that the Israeli Civil Administration did not inform the women about the actual content of the 51 Allyn Fisher-Ilan, “Israel Eases Steps to Revoke Citizenship,” Reuters, March 28, 2011, http://www. reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/us-israel-parliament-arabs-idUSTRE72R6OH20110328. 52 This document was given to a Palestinian citizen of Israel at the Gaza municipality in 1988. The document had one sentence in Arabic saying “with intention to immigrate to the Gaza Strip area”. 53 “Citizenship Reinstated for Arab Israeli Women Who Were Married to Residents of the OPT” (HAMOKED Center for the Defence of the Individual), accessed March 31, 2014, http://www.acri.org. il/he/108. 26