The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) said in a press statement that the Israeli Interior Ministry revoked the residency of 229 Jerusalemites in 2009 and 4672 residents in 2008. The center said that its report was based on data it received from the Israeli ministry
JCSER added that "30,000 Jerusalemites lost their residency since Israeli started implementing its expulsion and ethnic cleansing in the city in early 90s."
According to the center, around 165,000 Jerusalemites under the threat of loosing their residency in Jerusalem since they are living east of the wall that separates disputed city from the occupied West Bank.
The center said that the Jewish-dominated Jerusalem municipality "admitted for the first time that Israel got rid 55,000 Jerusalemites in the last years due to the separation wall and that they lost their right to reside in the city."
JCSER added that municipality's statistics "only include those living in the East Jerusalem's Sho'fat refugee camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Shihadeh and al-Salam neighborhood."
The center said that "70,000 Jerusalemite living in the neighborhoods of al-Bareed, Kafr Aqab and Samiramees are facing the same threat of transfer."
JCSER said that the intensive demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is aimed at decreasing the number of Palestinians to less than 80,000 citizens, warning that the Zionist schemes in the holy city are almost completed.
It stressed that Israel is working on putting the finishing touches of its Judaization schemes in Jerusalem through confiscating the remaining Palestinian real estate and lands, adding that the next scheme will be aimed at changing the landmarks of the city.
The center pointed out that all measures to judaize Jerusalem was taken in the aftermath of the Oslo accord which stipulated that the Palestinian Authority would be prohibited from practicing any kind of activity in Jerusalem, but these actions escalated after the Annapolis conference (held in November 2007).
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the June 1967 War, annexed it, and has since built settlements there that are home to more than 200,000 Israelis.
Control over the city has been seen as the most sensitive and thorniest issue of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of their future state but the Israel says the city is its eternal capital.
