“Israel” Strips Residency Status of 140,000 Palestinians without Warning

Without earlier warning, thousands of Palestinians traveling abroad have been stripped of residency status, after Tel Aviv.

Documents from "Israel's" justice ministry reveal that "Israel" used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, Ha'artz newspaper reported Wednesday.

The report added that the procedure was used on Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank who wished to travel abroad via Jordan. They were ordered at the Allenby Bridge border crossing to exchange their ID cards for a card allowing them to cross.

Palestinians who found themselves "no longer residents" include students who graduated from foreign universities, businessmen, and laborers who left for work in the Persian Gulf states.