Chairman of the Israeli Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Zvi Hauser, on Monday invoked the controversial 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law to prevent Palestinians from moving to Israel to be united with their families, Haaretz newspaper reported.
The Israeli Knesset voted by a majority of 41 in favor to 13 against extending the application of “the Citizenship and Entry” into Israel Law by a year that prohibits Palestinians from moving to Israel to be with their relatives.
Israel has renewed a profoundly discriminatory law that tears families apart because one spouse is a Palestinian from the West Bank & Gaza Strip.
In force since 2003, only 13 members of Knesset voted against the fresh one-year extension.https://t.co/5GFeLKUZJS pic.twitter.com/HLSSxr3QF6
— Ben White (@benabyad) June 3, 2020
According to Haaretz, over the past few years, family unification has been banned for Palestinians under “security pretexts”, however, this is the first time the controversial law, which designates Israel as the nation-state for only Jews, is invoked for that purpose.
Israel has repeatedly hindered Palestinians from being united with their families in Jerusalem and within Israel in an effort to reduce the Arab population and force families to move out and into the occupied West Bank.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
