Summary
Author of Al-Haq’s 1990 study on family reunification, a revision and expansion of a 1987 al-Haq briefing paper, which prefaced al-Haq’s first international campaign, “Stop Separating Palestinian Families!” (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.175-176).
Details
- She opened the study: “The right to live together with your spouse and children, in your homeland, is fundamental. But for Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, there is no such right” (PDF p.175).
- She explained that separated Palestinian families would be obliged to apply to the Israeli authorities for family reunification where residents had fled during the 1967 war and were then prevented from returning, where residents married a nonresident, and where “former residents of the Occupied Territories lost their rights to residency under laws and regulations issued by the Israeli authorities since 1967” (PDF p.175).
- She pointed out that, at the time of her study, the issue of separated Palestinian families was a “relatively unknown and unpublicised subject”; al-Haq field-workers completed 1,609 questionnaires from Palestinians whose applications had been refused in preparation for the campaign (PDF p.175).
- Looking back at fact-finding cooperation with international NGOs, she used the word “exploitation” for a relationship that was not “a partnership or a collaboration” (PDF p.147).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq