Approximately two thirds of the Palestinian people are forcibly displaced persons. BADIL’s Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 20102012 (BADIL Survey 2010-2012) estimates that there are at least 7.4 million Palestinian refugees35 and internally displaced persons, representing 66 percent of the global population of 11.2 million Palestinians. The global Palestinian population includes 5,030,049 Palestine refugees registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),36 an estimated one million non-registered 1948 refugees, one million 1967 refugees (1967 displaced persons)37 and an unknown number of refugees who are neither 1948 nor 1967 refugees–primarily displaced outside of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since 1967. About 7 percent of the displaced Palestinians (approximately 530,000) are internally displaced within Israel and the oPt. This figure does not include the Palestinians (approximately 100,000)38 recently displaced during and as a result of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in July-August 2014.39 Most Palestinians were displaced in five major waves from Palestine: 1. 1922-1948: Around 150,000 Palestinians were displaced within and beyond the borders of the country during the British Mandate (1922–1948). Thousands of Palestinians who were abroad at the time were not able to acquire citizenship under the 1925 Palestine Citizenship Order.40 Several tens of thousands fled Ibid.,VII:xv. According to the Survey of Palestinian Refugees and internally displaced Persons, 2013-2014(forthcoming), displaced Palestinians constitute 7.8 million of the global population of 11.8 million Palestinians. There is no single authoritative source for the global Palestinian refugee population. The estimates provided here include Palestinians and their descendants whose country of origin is Palestine and who were displaced outside the borders of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and do not have access to voluntary durable solutions. The actual number of these refugees in need of international protection is not known, due to the peculiarities of the protection regime for Palestinian refugees discussed in this Handbook. For detailed information, including sources and method of calculation of data, see Ibid., VII:24–27, Appendix 1.1. 36 UNRWA, In Figures - As of January 2014, In Figures, January 2014, 1. 37 Some 200,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced for a second time during the 1967 war, and another 60,000 Palestinians were abroad at the time of the war and are not included in the estimate of 1,022,546 persons. See: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:24–27, Appendix 1.1. 38 The number of Palestinians internally displaced was over 500,000 at the height of the hostilities. As of November 2014, approximately 100,000 remained displaced. See OCHA - Occupied Paalestinian Territories, Gaza Strip: Humanitarian Dashboard (November 2014), December 2, 2014, 1, http:// www.ochaopt.org/documents/humanitarian_dashboard_november_2014_02_dec_2014.pdf. 39 Similarly, during the Israeli “Operation Cast Lead” in Gaza (from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009), over 500,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes at some point in the conflict. Again, in November 2012, Israel’s “Operation Pillar of Defense lead to the displacement of 14,200 people in Gaza. See OCHA - Occupied Palestinian Territories, The Humanitarian Monitor: January 2009, February 2009, 3, http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_humanitarian_ monitor_2009_01_15_english.pdf and OCHA - Occupied Palestinian Territories, Gaza Initial Rapid Assessment, November 24, 2012, 5, http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/gaza_initial_rapid_ assessment_report_nov_2012_eng.pdf, respectively. 40 Palestine Royal Commission Report (London: HMSO, 1937), 331.Adnan A. Musallam, Folded Pages from Local Palestinian History in the 20th Century: Developments in Politics, Society, Press and Thought in Bethlehem in the British Era 1917-1948 (Bethlehem: WIAM - Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center, 2002). 35 The Palestinian Refugee Problem: An Overview 7