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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.
'Egypt grants citizenship to 50,000 Palest... JPost - Middle East
The Egyptian official estimates that by 2013 100,000 Palestinian Arabs who have Egyptian mothers will have been given Egyptians citizenship. I wonder why you don't get to be an Egyptian if your father was Egyptian.