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Regulating Residency Status
The term "resident" was first used in Military Order No. 65 on August 18, 1967, referring to those having permanent residency in the "Area." Subsequent Orders applied the term to permanent residents "legally" present, dependent on their having been counted in the September 1967 census. Others became immediately "illegal" for lacking lawful documentation. Henceforth to stay, they needed permits and Israeli authorization to work and engage in commercial activities. As a result, many Palestinians were fined, imprisoned or deported.
Those registered (counted) became candidates for ID numbers, strictly regulated by other Orders, including No. 297 (1969), requiring "males over 16 years old" have an ID card always on their presence to show on demand. Females over 16 were "permitted" to request them.
As later amended, they contained name, address, date of birth, gender, religion, nationality, spouse's name, names and gender of children, and their dates of birth. Order 1206 (1987) issued ID cards to children at birth, their registration linked to mothers, not fathers, perhaps for the greater chance that they were non-residents so authorities could deport them with their parent, Israel having final say. As a result, many children of non-resident parents may be denied registration at the whim of the official in charge.
Regulating Population Access and Exit
In 1967, Palestinians living outside Occupied Palestine and those who fled, can't return, the determinant being residency based on Israel's census. Those counted can stay. Others cannot without prior authorization. Those there "illegally" became aliens in their own land, hundreds of thousands displaced (called nazeheen) as a result.
Consider Israel's logic:
-- Area residents can be readmitted through borders;
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