The Israeli authorities are preventing dozens of Palestinian families from traveling to meet their sons, who were released from the Israeli jails last month under the Shalit prisoner-swap deal, and were sent to exile in Syria, Turkey, Qatar, and the Gaza strip, the Palestine News & Info Agencies (WAFA) reported.
The European Network to support the rights of Palestinians Prisoners, UFree, issued a statement revealing that the Israeli army prevented Palestinian men, women and children, from traveling through the Allenby Bridge connecting Palestine with Jordan, while trying to travel to visit their release family members.
UFree added that Israel prevented the families of the former detainees of Mahmoud Qawasmeh, Ayman ‘Qfesheh, ‘Ala ‘Qfesheh, Murad Al-Rajoub , Majdi al-Jo’ba, Saed Shallada, Abdullah ‘Arra, Iyad ‘Obeyyat, and ‘Ubadah Bilal , from traveling to visit their released family members.
The Network slammed Israel's claims for preventing a child identified as Sara Ayman ‘Qfesheh, 14, from traveling to see her father for what Israel labeled as “security concerns”. Sarah never met her dad, and only knows him from photos.
The child said that she hopes she will finally be allowed to travel with her family in order to visit her father> She also voiced an appeal to human rights groups in this regard.
International Middle East Media Center
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