Shortly before the second anniversary of the signing of the DOP, Israel re-assumes the separation of Palestinian families in all areas under its control. In East Jerusalem, we witness a new Israeli policy of confiscating ID cards from Jerusalemites living outside the city [see below]; in the Gaza Strip, Israel threatens with the eviction of thousands and in the rest of the West Bank, the Israeli authorities have proceeded from “merely” threatening non-resident spouses of Palestinian residents to actual evictions. 
In the night of Thursday, 1 June 1995, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Qabalan/Nablus and entered the homes hosting persons without valid visit permits. Several of them, Ashraf Hassan Salim Aqr’a (22), Hani Moussa Abu al-Sheikh (20) and his wife were detained, taken to the civil administration and deported to Jordan in the early morning hours. Many other families in Qabalan were informed that their relatives had to leave the West Bank immediately. [Source: al-Quds, 2/6/1995] A similar raid occurred in the village of Kharbatha/Ramallah. 
Since November 1994, human rights organizations have documented many incidents in which Civil Administrations pressured non-resident wives and husbands to leave the country by means such as confiscating the ID cards of those who had applied for the visit permit, fines, threats and raids of homes. [See for example ARTICLE 74/11] The fact that this time persons were actually detained and evicted directly by civil administration and army personnel represents an obvious escalation of methods. The Israeli State Legal Advisor maintains, as in the past, that there is no policy of evicting Palestinians whose visit permits have expired. Following the incidents at Qabalan and Kharbatha, ACRI was informed by the Deputy Sate Legal Advisor that his office had issued instructions to the Civil Administration to abstain form direct deportations [al-Quds, 22/6/95] 
In April 1995, the Palestinian Liaison Committee for Civil Affairs (PLCCA) reported that Israel had refused to renew the visit permits of Palestinians who tried to renew their permits for the third consecutive time [see ARTICLE 74/12]. Since then, the Palestinian authorities have been trying to obtain a special amnesty for 6,000 Palestinians who have no place to go. But so far Israel has not responded; a demand by the Palestinian delegation to the recent talks on the return of the 1967 displaced persons that Israel abstain form separating additional Palestinian families and grant an amnesty to the 6,000 was turned down by the Israeli delegation [al-Quds, 8/6/95].