They reside in the interior and diaspora, and have been denied the most basic rights for 25 years
100 Thousand Palestinians Live Without "ID Cards"
Thousands of Palestinian families are deprived of their most basic rights.
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Palestinians demonstrate in Gaza and the West Bank to demand their rights.
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“Family unification is my right” is a movement organized by Palestinians to demand their rights.
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The tragedy of Samir Shana'a, due to family reunification, has been going on for 26 years.
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In 2009, Palestinian citizen Samir Shana'a went to a hospital in the Gaza Strip, accompanied his father, who was ill with cancer.
As a result of his deteriorating health, as he was in dire need to transfer him to hospitals in the occupied Palestinian interior, due to the lack of treatment in the Gaza Strip due to the siege, but because he did not have a personal ID card, he did not obtain a medical permit allowing him to travel for treatment through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip. Who is under occupation control, to die while he is awaiting identification papers that give him another opportunity to get out and get treatment.
The same incident was repeated with the mother of citizen Shana'a, who suffers from liver and colon cancer in 2017, when he was unable to transfer her to Jerusalem hospitals, because she did not have a national number.
Today, the tragedy of Shana is renewed, who fears that his fate will be the same as it happened with his parents, in addition to being deprived of him and his family from obtaining family unification by the occupation, so that they face severe suffering in all aspects of their daily life, as a result of being deprived of their most basic rights, the most prominent of which is the right to government treatment Or, opening a bank account, or obtaining a passport, and also they do not get the right to register in government schools, because they do not have what proves their identity.
deprivation
In an exclusive interview with Emirates Today, Shana said: “The tragedy of obtaining family unification began with my father’s family in 1995, after we came from abroad to the Gaza Strip, as we did not have the official identification papers, and today I suffer with both my wife and my eight children. We are deprived of all rights, and we cannot travel because we do not possess the Palestinian passport, which carries a national number ».
He explains that the thousands of families who are currently in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the diaspora are suffering from being deprived of the multi-faceted Palestinian identity.
He adds: “We cannot receive treatment inside the country or abroad, and we are deprived of conducting all official transactions inside government institutions, because we do not have valid official papers, in addition to the inability of thousands of people to see their children, siblings, families and relatives for several years, and there are those who want to change the address of the residence. In the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but he is unable to do so.
The heinousness of the Palestinian Authority calls for urgent action at all levels to resolve the file of uniting Palestinian families and end their suffering that has worsened over the days, adding: “We knew our fate well, but what is the children's fault that they pay the price for staying in their land, and robbing them of all their rights while they are in Spring of their life ».
Extended tragedies
The tragedies of the Shana family, extending for more than 26 years, are bitterly bitter to more than 100,000 Palestinians, as these families reside inside the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and in the diaspora, without the personal ID cards issued by the Palestinian National Authority, which they can only obtain with the approval of The occupation, as these families have been demanding for many years a simple human right, which is to obtain family unification and an official identity card.
Mrs. Umm Muhammad is married in the Ramallah district of the West Bank city. She has not been able to travel to Jordan, see her parents, and meet them for 20 years, because she does not possess the official identity card that denies her the task of transporting her even within the cities and villages of the West Bank.
“Umm Muhammad” came from Amman to Ramallah in 1999 with a visit permit, and got married there, and since that moment she has not left the area in which she lives, in addition to being deprived of all her rights, as she is deprived of the procedure of unification with her family in Amman, or obtaining Official identification papers in the Palestinian territories.
Demands locked in drawers
After years of keeping these demands of thousands of Palestinians locked in the drawers of the Israeli Civil Administration, in recent weeks, the Israeli Civil Administration launched a campaign, “Reuniting my right,” to highlight the suffering of more than 100,000 Palestinians who cannot live in their homeland and with their families, in addition to organizing Mass sit-ins in the West Bank and Gaza, demanding the most basic right guaranteed to them by human rights laws in the world.
The campaign “Reuniting my Right” explained that these Palestinian families have been dispersed for more than 25 years, meaning that one of the parents or some of the children does not allow the occupation to enter them in the Palestinian population registry, indicating that the official Palestinian responses to the movement always bear responsibility for the occupation, and that it does not Deals with this.
Samir Shana'a: Thousands of families are currently deprived of the multi-faceted Palestinian identity in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the diaspora.
- After years of keeping the demands of thousands of Palestinians locked in the drawers of the Israeli Civil Administration, in recent weeks, a campaign called "Reuniting my right" has been launched; To shed light on the suffering of more than 100 thousand Palestinians who are unable to live in their homeland and with their families.
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