The PA has stopped giving Israel the information needed to issue passports, so many Palestinian requests to leave the West Bank with an infant are refused

A halt in security coordination between Israel and Palestine has left infants off of registration rolls and in limbo.

New travel restriction: Israel prevents newborn babies registered in the Palestinian registry from leaving the West Bank with their mothers eager to return to their homes and spouses abroad

HaMoked petitions to allow a mother and baby to join the father at their home in the UAE; the military prevents them from leaving the West Bank on the grounds the baby’s details do not appear in its records

Ma'an Abu Hafez was born in Brazil but moved to the West Bank as a toddler and left no family behind. Israel has been unsuccessfully trying to send him back

Following HaMoked’s petition: West Bank Palestinian released after spending two and a half years in detention as “illegal alien” pending deportation

HCJ hearing tomorrow regarding young Palestinian man detained for two and a half years pending deportation

Following HaMoked’s intervention: Israel abandons its plan to deport to Jordan a Palestinian living since childhood in the West Bank. The man was released to his home after he was held for some three months in a prison ward for illegal aliens

HaMoked petitions the High Court of Justice on behalf of a Palestinian man imprisoned in Israel as an illegal alien for over two years: Israel’s denial of family unification in the West Bank is the reason for his incarceration

According to the Palestinian media: children born abroad who have a parent who is a resident of the OPT, would no longer need to obtain a permit from Israel in order to enter the West Bank for the purpose of registering in the Palestinian population registry – provided they are under age 14

Courtesy of Maan News Agency

from the website of Human Rights Watch

The Supreme Court orders the state to pay NIS 7,500 in trial costs: the military permitted a 16 year old Palestinian to enter the West Bank for her registration in the population registry only after HaMoked’s petition

HaMoked has petitioned the High Court of Justice (HCJ) in the case of a Palestinian minor from Jordan who applied to be registered in the Population Registry in the territories despite having passed age 16: The HCJ rejected the petition, and even saw fit to express its opinion regarding the Petitioner’s quality of life in Jordan as opposed to “the distress facing others in the current political...

Following a petition filed by HaMoked, a Palestinian minor who lives in Jordan with his parents received a visitor’s permit into the West Bank and was entered in the population registry there: The West Bank Military Commander impedes the issuance of visitor’s permits for Palestinian minors living abroad in an attempt to block them from returning to live in the Occupied Territories when they so ...

In the series of petitions that have been filed by HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual in the matter of family unification in the territories, the state has claimed that the petitioners seek to violate the interim agreements, and therefore the petitions must be refused since they deal with essentially political issues: however the state’s claims are misleading, since in fact, the...

HaMoked has filed a further petition against military policy that prevents Palestinian residents of the Territories from maintaining family life and living with their partners and children: This is the twenty-seventh petition in a series filed by HaMoked demanding that the military authorities end their refusal to process applications submitted for their attention. HaMoked is also demanding tha...

Perpetual Limbo – A new report by HaMoked and B’Tselem: This is the second report in a series examining Israeli policy imposing separation on nuclear families in the Occupied Territories. The report focuses on Israel’s policy since the outbreak of the second intifada, including the total freeze on the processing of family unification in the Territories. This makes the lives of thousands of Pale...