Editors: Susan Akram and Nidal Al-Azza Research and Copy Edit: Ricardo Santos and Cynthia Orchard Design and Layout: Atallah Salem Closing Protection Gaps: A Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees in States Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention ISBN: 9950-339-00-6 2nd Edition February 2015 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights PO Box 728, Bethlehem, Palestine Telefax: 00970-2-2747346 http://www.badil.org © BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, 2005-2015 © in Preface Guy Goodwin-Gill, 2014 Printed by: al-Ayyam Press, Printing, Publishing & Distribution Co. For permission to copy or use this material, please write to BADIL at the above address. Cover photo: Palestinian Refugee Children from Syria in Za’atari refugee camp, February 1, 2013 (photo by Jeff J Mitchell)