5. 1968-present: Since 1967, Palestinians continue to be displaced both within and outside of Israel and the oPt due to policies and practices targeting the Palestinian people with forced population transfer.46 The policies and practices include revocation of residency rights,47 destruction of farmland and land confiscation,48 demolition of homes,49 harassment by non-state actors,50 Israeli military assault,51 and construction of settlements and the Annexation Wall.52 BADIL estimates that by 2011, 30,316 people had been displaced specifically due to the construction of the Wall.53 46 For an introduction to these policies and practices of forced population transfer, see BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine Introduction (Bethlehem, Palestine, March 2014). 47 Israel has revoked the residency status of more than 250,000 Palestinians. See BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine - Denial of Residency, April 2014, 18, http://BADIL.org/phocadownload/BADIL_docs/ publications/wp16-Residency.pdf. 48 Israel expropriated over a million dunums of land for exclusive Jewish-Israeli use following both the 1948 and 1967 wars. Today, Palestinians have the potential for full land rights only in Area A of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a miniscule portion of Palestine that is already overpopulated. See BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, “Chapter One: Land Confiscation,” in Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians, A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities (Bethlehem, Palestine: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 2013), http://www.BADIL.org/en/BADIL-news/1454-story-3. 49 Since 1967, Israel has demolished nearly 30,000 Palestinian homes in the occupied Palestinian territory alone. See BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, “Chapter Three: Planning, Building Permits and Home Demolitions,” in Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians, A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities (Bethlehem, Palestine: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 2013), http://www.BADIL.org/en/BADIL-news/1454-story-3. 50 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:27. See also Valentina Azarov, “Institutionalised Impunity: Israel’s Failure to Combat Settler Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” (Al-Haq, 2013), http://www.alhaq.org/publications/publicationsindex/item/institutionalised-impunity-israel-s-failure-to-combat-settler-violence-in-the-occupiedpalestinian-territory?category_id=11. 51 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:27. Also see “Fact Sheet: Operation Cast Lead” (IMEU, January 4, 2012), http://imeu.net/news/ article0021968.shtml and Yael Stein, “Human Rights Violations during Operation Pillar of Defense 1421 November 2012” (Btselem: The Israeli Organization for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, May 2013), http://www.btselem.org/download/201305_pillar_of_defense_operation_eng.pdf. 52 Since the resumption of US-led negotiations on 19 July 2013, between 29 July and 31 December 2013, while negotiations were ongoing, there was a 43 percent increase in house demolitions and a 74 percent increase in people displaced by demolitions as compared to the same period in 2012: Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man et al., “Joint Written Statement” (Human Rights Council 25th Session, February 17, 2014), http://www.BADIL.org/phocadownload/legal-advocacy/un-humanrights-council/2014/HRC_25_PHROC_Written%20Submission.pdf. In addition to facilitating defacto annexation of 9.4 percent of the West Bank and severely restricting Palestinians’ access to their properties and livelihoods, the Annexation Wall causes innumerable suffering for Palestinians, particularly those in living in the ‘seam zone’. See BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians, A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities (Bethlehem, Palestine: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 2013), 58–61, http://www.BADIL.org/en/documents/ category/35-publications?download=1045%3ABADIL-handbook. 53 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:27. The Palestinian Refugee Problem: An Overview 9