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Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Gaza: A demonstration of women calling for reunification with their husbands in the West Bank

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - About 100 Palestinian women from the Gaza Strip demonstrated, on Tuesday, to demand reunification with their husbands in the West Bank .


The participants in the vigil in front of the Beit Hanoun "Erez" checkpoint raised slogans in Hebrew and Arabic, demanding their right to change their place of residence from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, with the aim of reuniting them with their husbands, and for them to live a normal family life.


Hanan Abu Saa, representing the women, said in front of the journalists: "Our message to the international community is to intervene to solve our human issue that is far from politics. Here, in front of the Erez checkpoint, we are separated from our husbands by a few kilometers because of this separation wall, and all we want is to live a normal life." with our husbands."


She pointed out that among the married women and others who are engaged, they have not been able for many years, up to 16 years, to enter or even obtain a visitor permit to the West Bank, noting that their husbands also cannot enter the Strip because of the racist occupation policies.


She pointed out that a complete file on their case was submitted to the Civil Affairs, but no solutions were found, appealing to President Mahmoud Abbas and Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh to intervene to resolve their crisis.


Abu Saa said: "The occupation has a dirty racist policy and refuses to change addresses, even though this is a human demand. We do not understand what will harm our marriage and our children meeting with our husbands to form one family. We want to live and have a life only, we do not want to fight and we do not want to harm anyone." ".

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