Summary
The council which, in Bawalsa’s account, never considered the PLO’s 2012 draft citizenship law grounded in the Treaty of Lausanne, due to the legal complexities of conferring Palestinian citizenship on a fragmented population of refugees and occupied nationals (The Case for Palestinian Nationality, line 237).
Details
- The complexities Bawalsa names are identifying how citizenship would be conferred on refugees across the world and on occupied nationals in the West Bank and Gaza with varying residency statuses and rights to movement and access; under the Oslo Accords the PA regulates West Bank and Gaza statuses, with all residency conferrals approved by the Israeli regime (line 237).
Related pages
The Case for Palestinian Nationality, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian nationality, Palestinian Authority