Families Of 20 Released Prisoners Kept from Loved Ones

Date: 2011/12/05

UFree "Israeli Occupation Prevents Families Of 20 Released Prisoners From Meeting Their Loved Ones"

Israeli occupation authorities continue to prevent some relatives of the released prisoners, as per the Prisoner Exchange Deal, from travelling outside the occupied West Bank to meet their relatives who were recently released and expelled to Gaza, Qatar and Turkey.

UFree has detected that Israeli authorities have prevented some relatives, including women, children and elderly of 20 released prisoners, from travelling last November. The Israeli authorities denied their right to travel through "King Hussein's Bridge" and "Al-Karama" which are two borders with Jordan.

Israeli Border Police has informed the released prisoners' relatives that they were prevented from travelling due to "security reasons" which they didn’t clarify. The prevented relatives have issued all the required legal documents needed for travelling and they were never prevented from travelling previously; stated UFree in a press release on Sunday, December 4th.
UFree, headquarters in Oslo, considered this unjust action of prevention as a punishment imposed by the Israeli authorities against the released prisoners ignoring all the laws that ensure the freedom of movement to the citizens of the West Bank.

UFree demanded the sponsoring mediator of the Prisoner Exchange deal Egypt and Germany to ensure the achievement of the terms of the deal, allowing the relatives of the released prisoners to move and travel freely as this prevention stands as an outrageous violation of the deal between Israel and the Palestinian Factions which was sponsored by Egypt.

UFree declared that they are communicating with various international human rights organizations and other ones located inside the occupied territories to impose pressure on the Israelis both nationally and internationally to force them into allowing the prevented relatives to travel freely as per the International Law and all Human Rights Charters.

According to UFree representative in the West Bank, the following are the people who are prevented from travelling outside the West Bank which need urgent support:

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