| The Israeli National
Insurance Institute (NII) announced that approximately 15,000 Palestinian
families whose head of household has East Jerusalem resident status are
currently living in the occupied territories outside the city boundaries.
Approximately 1,500 of them reside in the PA administered Gaza Strip or
Jericho. The NII stated that it will make special efforts to identify these
families and stop child allowance payments, although accurate identification
is difficult, because Palestinian families who move outside the city tend
to keep their former Jerusalem address. This NII statement came in response
to protest against the continuation of NII payments raised in the Knesset
by a parliamentarian of the National Religious Party. The MK had been informed
of ongoing NII payments to Palestinian Jerusalemites living outside the
city by a NII clerk who himself had refused social security payments to
a Palestinian Jerusalemite whom he discovered as belonging to this group.
(Kol Israel Radio, 22/2/95) |