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Family Unification of Residents in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
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[Migration Policy Centre]; [CARIM-South]; CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes; 2009/19; Legal Module
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KHALIL, Asem, Family Unification of Residents in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, [Migration Policy Centre], [CARIM-South], CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes, 2009/19, Legal Module - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/11216
Abstract
Family unification refers to the administrative procedure through which foreign nationals are granted,
on the request of a relative, a legal status in the territory of the state where the applicant is legally
staying. In the case of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), the regulation of family unification is
anomalous, with regards to the concerned state and regulations, the applicant and the concerned
relatives, and the consequences of such a procedure.
Israel, indeed, has enjoyed exclusive power over the Palestinian population registry and the issuing
of IDs for Palestinians since 1967. It unilaterally decides on the granting of entry visas and visiting
permits for non-ID holding Palestinians in the oPt and for foreign visitors. The Oslo Agreements did
not end this regime.
Israeli policies to family unification for the Palestinians of the oPt constitute a violation of the right
to marry and to found a family, as guaranteed in Israeli domestic law as much as in Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law Conventions that Israel has ratified.
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Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM)