JERUSALEM, July 6: Nearly ’00 Palestinians living in Jerusalem have asked for Israeli citizenship for their families this year, according to an Interior Ministry report published to day by the Jerusalem Post, says AFP

The figures from January 1 to June 13 compared with 4.30 requests for the whole of 1994. The ministry grants tilizrnship in virtually all cases

The daily quoted offx lais as saying the increase betrayed uix ertainn over the political future in the holy dty, whk h the PLO wanes to share as capital of a Palestinian slate

Negotiations on the status of Jerusalem arc due to start between Israel and the PLO by May 1990, but campaigning is already underway on both sides