by Resolution 302 (IV),88 as well as their descendants.89 Those refugees, currently estimated to number more than 6 million persons, are composed of two sub-groups: a. Registered Palestine Refugees: The overwhelming majority, some 5 million as of 1 January 2014, are registered with UNRWA as “Palestine refugees.” Most of them reside within UNRWA’s area of operations in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, although some have left UNRWA’s area of operations and taken up residence elsewhere. In those cases, Palestinians cannot access individual services, but they retain their refugee status with UNRWA; b. Non-registered Palestine Refugees: A further one million refugees were also displaced in 1948, but did not register for assistance with UNRWA;90 Notably, these two groups of Palestine refugees constitute the main group of Palestinians eligible to be registered in UNRWA’s Registration System and obtain an UNRWA Registration Card. Along with them, some other Palestinians who do not meet UNRWA’s Palestine refugee criteria can also be registered for UNRWA services,91 such as: (i) “Jerusalem Poor and Gaza Poor” and their descendants through the male line;92 (ii) “Frontier Villagers” and their descendants through the male line; (iii) “Compromise Cases;” (iv) “MNR [married to non-refugee] Family Members,” i.e., husbands and children of Registered refugee women;93 (v) “Non-Refugee Wives;” and (vi) “Kafalah Children,” i.e., “children who are receiving from a Registered Refugee or Other Registered Person parental care according to the terms of Islamic Kafalah practice.”94 2. Displaced persons: Palestinians who do not fall under the first category 88 14 UN General Assembly, “Resolution 302(IV) - Assistance to Palestine Refugees,” December 8, 1949, UN Doc. A/RES/302(IV), http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/AF5F909791DE7FB085256 0E500687282, Preamble. 89 The UN General Assembly concern with the descendants of Palestine refugees and of Palestinian “displaced persons” (see item 2 above) was stated in its Res. 37/120 I, of 16 December 1982. See UN General Assembly, “Resolution 37/120 - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,” December 16, 1982, UN Doc. A/RES/37/120 [A-K], http:// www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/37/120&Lang=E&Area=RESOLUTION I, para. 2. This understanding also has been laid out in UNHCR’s Notes of interpretation of Article 1D, most recently in 2013. See UNHCR, “Note on UNHCR’s Interpretation of Article 1D of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Article 12(1)(a) of the EU Qualification Directive in the Context of Palestinian Refugees Seeking International Protection,” May 2013, http://www. refworld.org/docid/518cb8c84.html, footnote 10. 90 See BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:24–27 Appendix 1.1. 91 Those persons, however, “are not counted as part of the official Registered Refugee population of the Agency.” UNRWA, “Consolidated Eligibility and Registration Instructions (CERI),” 2009, 4, http:// www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/2010011995652.pdf. 92 Ibid. 93 Ibid., 5. 94 Ibid., 6. Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees