AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): In another hostile action against Palestinians, Israel has denied Palestinians their family reunification right, confirming recent charges by rights groups that Israel acts as an apartheid regime against the Palestinians.
Palestinian media, quoting sources reported on Sunday that right-wing Israeli Minister of Interior, Eyelet Shaked, was pushing her cabinet to support a law that bans Palestinians from the Occupied Territories married to Palestinians living inside Occupied Lands from uniting with their spouses and families.
Shaked, a staunch opponent of uniting Palestinian families further said that the law will be brought again before the Knesset (parliament) on Wednesday for a vote, expecting that lawmakers were going this time to uphold the ban.
In July last year, the Israeli Knesset, voted not to renew the law, which came up every year since 2003 for a vote and was constantly upheld. '
The move had opened the way for thousands of Palestinians who applied over the years to be unified with their families inside Occupied Palestine or in the occupied East al-Quds to demand a review of their application.
However, Shaked, in her capacity as interior minister, has refused to consider any application since the law was repealed in July.
The latest developments also come days after an international rights group said in a recent report that Israeli authorities must be held accountable for enforcing a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians.
Released on Tuesday, the 280-page report details how Israeli authorities enforce a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinians.
Israel is carrying out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” and must be held accountable for treating them as “an inferior racial group.”
The report lists a range of Israeli abuses, including extensive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, administrative detention and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians.
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7 February 2022 - 10:50
News ID: 1226917
In another hostile action against Palestinians, Israel has denied Palestinians their family reunification right, confirming recent charges by rights groups that Israel acts as an apartheid regime against the Palestinians.
