through the specific branches of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law and international refugee law. Both internal (within an internationally recognized border) and external displacement are regulated. BADIL presents this series of working papers in a concise and accessible manner to its designated audiences: from academics and policy makers, to activists and the general public. Generally, the series contributes to improving the understanding of the ongoing ‘nakba’4 of the Palestinian people and the need for a rights-based approach to address it among local, regional and international actors. We hope that the series will inform stakeholders, and ultimately enable advocacy which will contribute to the dismantling of a framework that systematically violates Palestinian rights on a daily basis. The series is intended to encourage debate and to stimulate discussion and critical comment. Since Israeli policies comprising forced population transfer are not static, but ever-changing in intensity, form and area of application, this series will require periodic updates. The series of working papers will address nine main Israeli policies aiming at forced population transfer of Palestinians. They are: 1. Denial of Residency 2. Discriminatory Zoning and Planning 3. Installment of a Permit Regime 4. Suppression of Resistance 5. Land Confiscation and Denial of Use 6. Denial of Access to Natural Resources and Services 7. Institutionalized Discrimination and Segregation 8. Non-state Actions (with the implicit consent of the Israeli state) 9. Denial of Reparations including refugee and IDPs return, property restitution, compensation and non-repetition. 4 The term Nakba (Arabic for ‘Catastrophe’) designates the first round of massive population transfer undertaken by the Zionist movement and Israel in the period between November 1947 (UN Palestine Partition Plan) and the cease-fire (Armistice) agreements with Arab states in 1949. The Ongoing Nakba describes the ongoing Palestinian experience of forced displacement, as well as Israel’s policies and practices that have given rise to one of the largest and longest-standing populations of refugees, internally displaced persons and stateless persons worldwide. 7