New Data on Jerusalem ID Confiscation in 1998

New Data on Jerusalem ID Confiscation in 1998;
New Issue of BADIL quarterly

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
19 October 1998
BADIL Resource Center

Official Israeli Data on ID Card Confiscation in Jerusalem in 1998

According to the data released by the Israeli Interior Ministry in early October 1998, 346 Jerusalem identity cards have been confiscated from Palestinian Jerusalemites by the Ministry in the period January - August 1998. According to the Ministry’s spokeswoman Tova Elinson, 270 of these ID cards belonged to Palestinians living abroad. This rate of ID card confiscations is similar to the rate documented for 1997 and 1998.

Month	Number of ID cards confiscated
January	57
February	71
March	54
April	9
May	132
June	9
July	--
August	14
Total 1-8/98	346

Newly Released by BADIL:
Issue no. 25 (September 1998) of ARTICLE 74 Bulletin for the Promotion of Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights, 16 pages

Content:
Palestinian Refugees - Five Years After Oslo
- New Israeli-Palestinian Position Paper on Refugee Question (Harvard University)
- BADIL Field Report: Refugees in the West Bank & the Gaza Strip;
- UNRWA’s Financial Crisis - Refugee Protests Continue
Ethnic Cleansing & Resistance in Jerusalem
- SUMOUD Camp Commemorates its First Anniversary
- ID Card Confiscation and New Israeli Policies
- Palestinian Communities Under Siege:
Bir Ona and Sheikh Jarrah/French Hill

For orders of ARTICLE 74 Bulletin, please contact BADIL at: tel/fax (02) 2747346 or email: info@badil.org.