WEST BANK (Dispatches) – More than half a million Israelis left the occupied territories and did not return during the first six months of the Zionist regime’s war on Gaza, according to the Population and Immigration Authority.
The authority’s data indicates that the number of Israelis who left the occupied territories since October last year is around 550,000 — more than those who returned by Easter this year in April.
What might have been a temporary escape for Israelis during the war or technical difficulties in returning has now turned into a permanent trend, or permanent migration, according to a report.
According to data from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, in April, the Zionist regime’s population stood at 9.9 million.
Millions of Israelis hold dual citizenship as they possess at least one other nationality alongside their regime’s so-called citizenship.
The occupying regime, flouting a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal onslaught on Gaza since Oct. 7 last year.
More than 37,500 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 86,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.
More than eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
The Zionist regime is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its aggression in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded in early May.