JERUSALEM -- Israel revoked the Jerusalem residency of more than 4,500 Palestinians during 2008, far more than in any other year since Israel took full control of the city in 1967, according to government figures obtained under the country's freedom of information act by a local human rights group.
In what an official for the group on Wednesday called a "frightening" escalation in the enforcement of Jerusalem residency laws, the Interior Ministry said that a sweep of its files last spring turned up thousands of names of Palestinian Jerusalemites who had left the country for longer than the allowed seven years, and would not be allowed to return.
In the 42 years that Israel has had full control of the city, it has on average revoked the Jerusalem residency permits of about 200 people a year -- and often fewer than 100. The previous high had been 1,363, in 2006.
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