The hearing dealt with four petitions filed by HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual on behalf of families in which one of the spouses is a resident of the West Bank or Gaza and the other is a foreigner. Since the beginning of the second intifada, Israel has frozen family unification in these cases. In addition, Israel has ceased issuing visitor's permits, which enabled families to live together legally in the West Bank and Gaza . As a result of the freeze policy, the foreign spouses of Palestinians, mostly women, have faced a cruel choice: leave the Occupied Territories and not be allowed to return to their spouses and children, or stay illegally and not be able to see their parents, siblings, and other relatives living in their native land. Many chose to remain in the West Bank and Gaza, and have thus been sentenced to a life of fear and constant threat of deportation; the problems inherent in moving in the West Bank without any valid identity document virtually makes them prisoners in their own homes and villages.
Because of the important principles involved, eight other human rights joined HaMoked as petitioners in this case.
Video testimonies of women from the former USSR married to residents of the Territorieshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjzRKfe2KU
Video testimonies of a Jordanian citizen married to a resident of the Territories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et2muVDhIrY
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