The liaison office of the Israeli Coordination of Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories stated that this decision affects 2,800 former residents of the Gaza Strip who left the Strip after it was captured by Hamas in internal Palestinian fighting in 2007..
An additional 1,200 Palestinians, including undocumented spouses and children of West Bank residents, will also receive official status.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Twitter that he had approved the registration of 4,000 residence permits as a humanitarian gesture “and as part of my policy to boost the economy and improve the lives of Palestinians” in the West Bank..
Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior official in the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, said on Twitter that 4,000 Palestinians “were granted the right to citizenship and to receive Palestinian identities.”
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