Jerusalem ID-Card Confiscation 1996 – 1998: Official Israeli Data

*Year*	*IDs Confiscated*
1996	689
1997	606
1998	788*

*(of them: Palestinians living abroad: 618 Palestinians living in the West Bank: 170)
The number of ID card confiscations increased dramatically in the last quarter of 1998 (official cases reported for January-August 1998 were 346). The number of Palestinian Jerusalemites evicted by ID card confiscation between 1996 – 1998 stands at 2,083 families, i.e. roughly 8,332 individuals