Israeli Terror Against Families, Even Their Own

From Amnesty International:

"Israel/Occupied Territories: High Court decision institutionalizes
racial discrimination


The decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice on 14 May to uphold a
law which explicitly denies family rights on the basis of ethnicity or
national origins is a step further in the institutionalization of
racial discrimination in Israel.


The "Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law" bars family
reunification for Israelis married to Palestinians from the Occupied
Territories. It specifically targets Israeli Arabs (Palestinian
citizens of Israel), who make up a fifth of Israel's population, and
Palestinian Jerusalemites,(1) for it is they who marry Palestinians
from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.


Thousands of couples are affected by this discriminatory law, which
forces Israeli Arabs married to Palestinians to leave their country or
to be separated from their spouses and children. Israeli military law
forbids Israelis from entering the main population centres in the
Occupied Territories and Israeli citizens cannot join their Palestinian
spouses there, and at the same time Palestinian spouses staying in
Israel without a permit are constantly at risk of being deported and
separated from their families. Thus, Israeli-Palestinian couples would
ultimately be forced to move to another country in order to live
together - an option which is neither feasible nor desirable for
those concerned. In addition, Palestinian Jerusalemites would lose
their residency and their right "to ever live in Jerusalem again if
they move out of the city."