Atef Daghlas-Nablus
"Now I have arrived in Istanbul, in the past two days, I had no time to officially announce my marriage contract to my journalist Majdouloun Hassouna, but in another case."
This was based on a long publication by Palestinian journalist Mehmet Khairi who wrote when he set foot in the Turkish territory of Istanbul after he arrived alone without journalist Majdoulin Hassouna, who was prevented by the Israeli occupation from traveling with him through the King Hussein Bridge (Allenby Crossing).
On Sunday, she returned to the city of Nablus and invited her to visit Israeli intelligence at the Huwwara camp south of the city.
A recent meeting between Majdalin and her fiancé Mehmet, as she told Al Jazeera Net in the Sharia courtroom in Nablus, where they documented their marriage contract in the hope of completing the joys in Istanbul, but their joy did not take place.
Although it is not the first time she has been detained or summoned for interrogation, she is the only one who has since been banned from traveling.
| King Hussein Bridge is the only outlet for the people of the West Bank to the world (Al Jazeera Net) |
Security obsession
Majdolin, who has been repeatedly chased by the Palestinian security services, has no reason to prevent her travel, and the occupation did not reveal her. All that happened at the crossing was that "three Israeli officers came to me and told me that I could not travel and that I should review the intelligence." Its journalistic activity in defense of prisoners only.
The travel ban threatens the young couple's ambition to complete their married and working lives. They plan to complete their marriage ceremony with a grand ceremony in Istanbul and then complete their higher studies.
The journalist's travel ban was met with overwhelming rejection by local and international human rights organizations. Skyline International said it was a punishment for Palestinians and a violation of their most basic civil rights.
Israel bans dozens of Palestinians from traveling to the West Bank every month without giving reasons, but detains them, interrogates them and then receives reports to review its intelligence, including some who have turned him directly into detention.
Shawan Jabarin, director of the Palestinian Foundation for Human Rights, said that the Israeli security concern is behind the ban. He tells Al-Jazeera Net that the occupation treats the West Bank as a "closed" area and that entry and exit to and from it are subject to the command of the Israeli military commander.
Jabarin revealed that the Israeli Supreme Court did not take a single decision on any of the cases prohibited from traveling in front of them, but if it came to the stage of the decision "whisper to the Israeli public prosecution to negotiate with the person banned to reach a solution through a deal or other", to avoid the court to take a decision broken It has a security resolution that is described above all.
According to Jabarin, the occupation uses the travel ban as a collective punishment of the Palestinians and a policy of overthrowing people into the trap of employment as it controls their own destinies and lives.
Israel prevented Jabarin himself from traveling almost continuously from 1979 to 2012, depriving him of a dream he had from a young age to study medicine abroad, and prohibited participation in international conferences and events.
| Helmi al-Araj: travel ban is collective punishment and silent crime (Al Jazeera) |
Sadistic occupation
Helmi al-Araj, director of the Center for the Defense of Freedoms, agrees with Jabarin that the ban is a "collective punishment". Moreover, he told Al-Jazeera Net that it is a "silent crime" in which the occupation aims to blackmail the Palestinians and crack down on them. Control the lives of citizens.
In this prohibition, the occupation deprives citizens of their basic rights such as work, treatment, worship, education and for long periods without informing. A citizen does not know in advance that he is forbidden, but when he packs his luggage and decides to travel after he has obtained a visa to travel.
According to Al-Araj, "Hurriyat" as a human rights body has been assigned to a team of lawyers to follow up on this file.
Although travel is a civil right guaranteed by international humanitarian law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Israel imposes it as an "additional punishment" for them, particularly freed prisoners. "One of the prisoners we are following has been detained for 30 years and since its liberation five years ago, Allowed to travel. "
The Freedom Center follows up on the files of those who are not allowed to travel legally to the Israeli Supreme Court, and seeks to turn them into a national united Palestinian official and popular issue, and addresses international bodies such as the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretary-General of the United Nations to assume their legal and moral responsibilities.
In Nablus, specifically in Huwwara camp south of the city, I waited for the third time for Majdouloun Hassouna on Wednesday to meet with the Israeli intelligence officer as planned, but this did not happen and her drawbacks and the fire of anger took her back.In Istanbul, the same fire is ironing to her fiancé, Mohammad, who is mobilizing to support her legally and media.