In total, around 211,045 Palestinians became internally displaced, mainly due to home demolitions or destruction between 1967 and 2014. Accounting for the growth rate of 2.5 percent during 2015-2020 and 2.4 percent for 2021, the grand total for this estimated IDP population is 232,150 persons until 2018 and then it reached 249,756, plus 3,104 new IDPs313 due to demolished houses, totaling 252,860 persons. Additionally, 7,287 persons have been displaced as a result of harassment by Israeli-Jewish colonizers in the oPt. At least 1,014 Palestinian homes in the old city of Hebron had been vacated by 2007. Considering average household size in the Hebron district is 5.8 persons, and also taking into account the population growth from 2008 to 2016 and 2.5 percent for 2017-2020 and 2.4 percent for 2022; about 8,600 individuals were displaced in Hebron by 2021.314 c) Another category is Palestinians displaced as a result of revocation of residency rights in Jerusalem. The total number of Jerusalem ID cards held by Palestinians and subsequently confiscated by Israeli authorities since 1967 to the end of 2020 amounts to 14,701 IDs.315 This number does not include the children (under the age of 16 years) of persons whose residency status was revoked (other sources estimate that 80,000 Palestinians have been affected by the revocation of Jerusalem ID cards since 1967), nor does it take into account ID cards that may have been reinstated due to a lack of supporting evidence for their original revocation. d) Persons who were displaced by the construction of the Apartheid Wall amount to 39,509. This number was calculated by adjusting the 2008 number (27,841 displaced persons) with the population growth of 2.88 percent for 2009-2016, 2.5 percent for 2017-2020, and 2.4 percent for 2021.316 312 OCHA, Data on Demolition (n 137). Ibid. 314 B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), ‘Ghost Town: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron’ (2007) <https://www.btselem.org/download/200705_hebron_ eng.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022; B’Tselem, ‘Statistics on Revocation of Residency in East Jerusalem’ (B’Tselem, 7 April 2021) <https://www.btselem.org/arabic/jerusalem/revocation_statistics> accessed 3 October 2022. 315 Ibid. 316 PCBS, Jerusalem Statistical Yearbook 2012 (PCBS 2012), 218 <http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book1891.pdf> accessed 3 October 2022. 313 67 2 Chapter 2011, bringing the total number to 64,343. During the years 2012-2014, two significant events further impacted existing IDPs and created new IDPs. 52,916 people became IDPs across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 2012-2013. This includes those displaced during the 2012 military assault on the Gaza Strip and those displaced by home demolitions in the West Bank. Most of those displaced inside Gaza Strip were a result of the damage and destruction caused by Israeli warfare practices, suggesting that, for many, re-building destroyed homes was not possible. Moreover, 517 people became internally displaced in Jerusalem due to home demolitions. In 2014, another Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip forcibly displaced more than half a million Palestinians, leaving 22,000 as IDPs at the time of writing. The total number of homes and apartments destroyed during the 2012 and 2014 military assaults on the Gaza Strip was 19,257. According to OCHA, from 2006 to April 2022, 12,290 Palestinians were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.312

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