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Palestinians were not made to register, declare all assets, pay registrations fees based on those assets or face deportation
Many palestinians under the Ottoman and later the mandate were given an opportunity to register land and pay tax so they could be issued a deed. They choose not to rather than face required military service or because they did not have the money for the taxes, or the land they lived on belonged to someone else. No deportation was threatened.
This was not demanded by Israel, this was well before the mandate ended. Palestinians were not forced to leave after Israel became independent, arabs told them to leave or they panicked when Israelis fought back against the arab armies. After 1949, those found to have aided or participated in terrorism were deported, not en mass, not whole villages. Some palestinians had to move from land that needed to be appropriated by Israel for infrastructure, defense or unsafe buildings. Palestinians were not forced into camps, except by the arabs.