Israeli
Interior Ministry refuses to list the children in the population
register and show them on the ID cards of their parents.
Palestinian
and Israeli human rights groups have revealed that 20,000 children from
Jerusalem are denied permission to live with their parents in the
occupied city of Jerusalem because, the Israeli authorities say, one
parent holds a West Bank ID card. Apart from the mental anguish, this is
causing great difficulty for these children with regards to their
access to education and health services.
The problem goes back to 2002, when the Israeli Interior Ministry
took the decision to freeze all requests for family reunification
submitted by couples who have one spouse carrying a blue (Jerusalem) ID
card and the other a West Bank ID card. This was one of a series of
measures aimed at emptying Jerusalem of its Palestinian residents and
pushing Israel's "Judaisation" policy.
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