The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” condemns the Israeli occupation’s authorities blatant violation against new born children, who are less than a few weeks old from practicing their right to travel with their families, in a dangerous precedent of its kind. The right of movement is a guaranteed right as per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 13) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 12). The Israeli authorities is collectively punishing little children and their families despite providing identification documents, claiming that the PNA did not transfer newborns records to the Israeli authorities as it used to since 1994. However, the Palestinian authority stopped all proceedings with the Israeli side, as a result of the Palestinian leadership decisions of May 19th 2020 to stop all security coordination and decomposition of signed agreements with the occupying state,
Hurryyat strongly condemns the Israeli violation that affects the rights of more than 25,000 new borns since the mentioned Palestinian leadership decision of May. Hurryyat considers this violation as an assult to the rights of these children, an Israeli attempt to blackmail their families, and a political incitement against the Palestinian National Authority to impede its decisions. Hurryyat considers this violation as a racist practice affecting the rights of these children just because they’re Palestinians
Hurryyat is calling for the international community, the the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the UNICEF, and international human rights institutions to shoulder their responsibilities concerning what the Palestinian children are subject to, and condemn the Israeli policy that violates human rights affecting tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens who are not only deprived from their basic rights to travel but also putting extra financial burden as a result of losing the reserved airline tickets.
Hurryyat is stressing on the necessity to pressure the occupying state under the penalty of responsibility and accountability to permanently stop this policy since it affects many basic civil rights of those citizens such as education, treatment, labour, family boding, revive religious rituals …ect.
Its important to note that Hurryyat was able to document 8000 travel banning cases at al-Karama border crossing for security reasons, between 2014-2019 from different age groups and social sectors including 650 women.