Egypt grants citizenship to 50,000 Palestinians
Published: 11/Oct/2012
Source: Jerusalem Post
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Some 50,000 Palestinians, most of them from the Gaza Strip, have been granted Egyptian citizenship over the past few months, an Egyptian security official revealed Thursday.
The official said that the Egyptian Interior Ministry had been instructed to give Egyptian citizenship to all Palestinians who were born to Egyptian mothers.
The official, who was not identified, told the Egyptian newspaper El-Watan that the instructions came from the country’s High Administrative Court in Cairo last May. The official pointed out that the number of Palestinians who have received Egyptian citizenship increased dramatically after the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt now occupies second place – after Jordan – in granting citizenship to Palestinians.
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