For the second time, the Palestinian woman, Haya Shabaru, tries to travel with her newborn baby, Alia, to join her husband in the Emirates after she was suspended for months in the West Bank following the closure of airports and crossings due to the Corona pandemic. Include them.
Shbaro had returned to the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, and gave birth to her child in the beginning of last April without being able to register her due to the disruption of government departments following the declaration of a state of emergency from the Palestinian Authority due to Corona at the end of last March.
After coordination between the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Jordanian authorities for the travel of stranded people in the West Bank since the closure of the crossings and airports, Haya Shbaro arrived on the previous July 22 at the Karama crossing with Jordan, but the Israelis informed her that her child was prevented from traveling because her card number had not appeared in the Israeli records because he had not been transferred. From the Palestinian Authority.
On May 20 last year, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian Authority was "in the process of dissolution of all agreements and understandings with the US and Israeli governments", including security and civil coordination agreements.
This came in response to the announcement of the new Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu to move forward in implementing a plan to annex large parts of the West Bank according to what was called the "American-Israeli peace plan", which the Palestinians considered undermining peace efforts and blowing up the possibility of reaching an agreement according to "a two-state solution."
Stop trading
In the declaration, the Palestinian President said that Israel "must bear all the responsibilities and obligations before the international community as an occupying power in the occupied Palestinian state, and with all the consequences, consequences and repercussions, based on international law and international humanitarian law."
Since then, the Authority has suspended its security and civil dealings with Israel, including transferring birth registries in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to document them with the Israeli authorities, as has been the case since the Oslo agreement in 1993.
The Shabarru family said that they went to register their new child, Alia, in mid-May, when the Palestinian Ministry of Interior resumed work when commencing easing procedures to confront Corona, issued her a birth certificate and a passport, and it was duly registered in her mother's ID card.
Nevertheless, the mother was surprised to return her with her daughter because her record did not reach the Israeli side. The registration officer told her that the Palestinian Authority must transfer its record to the Israelis for approval. She tried again on July 26, but faced the same problem.
On the same day, the Israeli occupation authorities returned to the border crossing another family from the city of Ramallah because of the lack of recognition of the registration of her child born since last March, because her record had not reached the Israeli side. "My soul is here to let Abu Mazen know you. You are the one who wanted to stop coordination," the Israeli registry employee said to the mother in Arabic.
Each time, the two families booked airline tickets via Jordanian Airlines, as well as departure fees from the Palestinian crossing to the Israeli checkpoint and from there to the Jordanian border, and they lost all of that after the Israeli occupation prevented its passage.
Ambassador Ahmed Al-Deek, the political advisor to the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, described the ban on the two girls as "arbitrary, racial and blackmail", and considered it a flagrant violation of the obligations of the occupation towards the citizens under occupation.
Al-Deek said in a press statement that preventing the newborns from traveling constitutes a violation and an insult to the Geneva Conventions that guarantee freedom of movement for the peoples under occupation, especially since their mothers carry valid documents for them and their children, and this measure also constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, which also explicitly provides for freedom Movement, travel and movement of citizens under occupation.
Thousands unrecognized
In an attempt to investigate Al Jazeera Net with the Palestinian departments specialized in documenting newborns, it has been recorded that 22,360 new Palestinian children have been registered in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since May 10, 2020, and these are not recognized by Israel because their records have not been transferred from the Palestinian Authority to the side. The Israeli government against the background of stopping civil coordination between the two sides.
This procedure also includes not recognizing the registration of new ID cards for those who have reached the age of eighteen in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as new passports, as well as the suspension of medical transfer transactions for treatment from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, which was in need of coordination with the Israelis.
Undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior Yusef Harb said in a statement to Al-Jazeera Net that "the work of security and civil coordination agreements stopped according to the instructions of the Palestinian leadership last May 19, and we abide by that."
Despite this, Harb stresses that newborns hold internationally recognized Palestinian birth certificates and passports and that Israel has no right to return them through the crossings.
Harb says that all the Palestinian people were affected by the Israeli reaction to the cessation of the agreements, but the occupation authorities were and are still practicing a policy of preventing travel and prohibiting the passage of thousands of Palestinians to the crossings before stopping coordination with them, whether they are sick, students or others.
The attorney considered the travel ban of newborns an Israeli attempt to pressure the Palestinian leadership to resume the agreements as they were before last May.
The spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, Ghassan Al-Nimr, revealed to Al-Jazeera Net efforts by the authority to search for a third party through which civil affairs with the Israelis are handled, but without results so far.