presumably UNCCP, and therefore, they are not covered by Article 1D and must apply for refugee status “in the normal way under the 1951 Convention via Article 1A(2).”104 The population of such displaced Palestinians is unknown. These persons now reside abroad and, owing to a fear of persecution, are unable or unwilling to return to the occupied Palestinian territory or Israel. The number of Palestinians displaced from and within the occupied Palestinian territory since 1967, including those displaced for the first time, is difficult to determine given the lack of a registration system and continual displacement over four decades of military occupation. More than 519,000 Palestinians are internally displaced persons today.105However, such persons are not within the scope of this Handbook as they do not qualify as refugees and, thus, do not fall under UNRWA’s mandate nor the 1951 Convention.106 Some of these internally displaced persons were displaced in 1948 or 1967; others have been forced to move for the first time between or since. 4. Stateless Persons and the Statelessness Conventions Palestinian nationality dates to the Lausanne Treaty, which, as seen above, incorporated the Ottoman nationality law applying to Palestinians. This international legal recognition of Palestinian nationality (for the first time) was then incorporated as a matter of domestic law in the territory in 1925 through the British Mandate Citizenship Orders. From that time on, Palestinians had a defined nationality as a matter of international law, and this nationality continued – and was recognized as such, including by Israeli, British and other courts – until Israel’s Nationality Law in 1952. Under the terms of that law, Israel expressly repealed Palestinian nationality: The Palestinian Citizenship Orders, 1925-1942 are repealed with effect from the day of the establishment of the State [of Israel].107 104 UNHCR, “2013 Note,” 3. BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:xv. According to BADIL’s Survey of 2013-2014 (unpublished yet) Palestinian IDPs number is about 570,000. This figure does not include those displaced in the recent war waged on Gaza Strip in JulyAugust 2014). 106 Palestinian internally displaced persons include persons displaced in the territory that became the State of Israel in 1948 and in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip as a result of the 1967 War, and 1967 displaced persons at a later stage, including during the second intifada. See Terry Rempel, Internally Displaced Palestinians, International Protection and Durable Solutions, Information and Discussion Brief (Bethlehem: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 2002). See also www.badil.org and BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012. See also IDMC, “No End to Internal Displacement,” Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, July 5, 2011, http://www.internal-displacement.org/middle-eastand-north-africa/palestine/2011/no-end-to-internal-displacement/ and IDMC, “Palestine: Internal Displacement in Brief,” Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, December 31, 2013, http://www. internal-displacement.org/middle-east-and-north-africa/palestine/summary/. 107 The State of Israel, Nationality Law, 1952, http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/ fulltext/nationalitylaw.htm, Article 18(a). 105 The Palestinian Refugee Problem: An Overview 17