| WEST BANK - Update According to the timetable set by the DOP, Israel should have already handed its civil administration offices over to the PNA. However, “there are no sacred dates” for the Rabin government, and the civil administrations are not maintaining a low profile, but rather continue to procedure new regulations which guarantee that Palestinian families will remain separated in the future.
On August 9, 1994, the AIC’s lawyer Atty Lea Tsemel was informed by the State Attorney that non-resident spouses of West Bank residents who are not covered by previous agreements, would no longer be issued visit permits, because “there is a strong reason to suspect that they will not leave the country when their visit permits expire”. Such spouses will be allowed to enter only after they are granted family reunification. Since family reunification procedures still require one year or more, it is unacceptable to oblige families remain apart during this period. |
