Tag: Denial of Entry

  • Denial of Dignity, Denial of Entry

    Eccerpts from by Nadia’s journal 3 May 2007 What happened to me yesterday is something I couldn’t imagine possible, not because I didn’t think I could be refused entrance into Israel. There always was a possibility I would be interrogated, but not in the way they did. I landed in Tel Aviv at 7 am,…

  • Diplomatic Mission intervention unites foreign passport holders with their families;

    the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-enter April 26, 2007 (April 26, 2007 – Ramallah) –Israeli border control authorities continue arbitrarily denying entry to foreigners traveling to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The pattern was first identified by the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-Enter the oPt in early 2006 when long-time residents returning from…

  • Israel’s ‘new’ Procedures Change little at the Borders

    Tens of thousands of families still face forced separation or de facto deportation Ramallah – 29 March, 2007 Israel’s various announcements regarding new procedures for entry and visa extensions have failed to address, even superficially, the humanitarian crisis caused by its arbitrary, discriminatory and abusive exercise of authority over entry into the occupied Palestinian territory…

  • Haaretz: “Quality time”

    by Gideon Levy, The Jordanian MIRS chirps on the table. “Where’s Nur?” asks the woman on the line from Amman. “She’s standing next to me,” replies her husband in Azariyeh, east of Jerusalem. A chirp every few minutes. Yihye Bassa, a 40-year-old date merchant, has for several years been forbidden for security reasons to travel…

  • Haaretz: “A mother’s resistance”

    by Ofri Ilani, February 14th Laila El-Haddad’s blog took shape in a very unusual way. Her son, Yousuf, was less than a year old when she returned to her Gaza home from a visit to the United States, where her husband, Yassine, lives. The blog, “Raising Yousuf” (a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com), had just begun, and it dealt with…