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Palestinian Rights Activist Slams Israel’s Travel Ban

November 3, 2019 3:14 pm

A Palestinian human rights campaigner struck with a travel ban by Israel has described the government’s rationale as “completely false and ridiculous”, terming the move “punitive measure” against the work of his employers Amnesty International.

Laith Abu Zeyad, who works as Amnesty’s campaigner on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, was stopped by Israeli authorities at the King Hussein/Allenby border crossing on October 26 while on his way to attend a relative’s funeral in Jordan.

After being held for four hours, he was told he was banned from travelling abroad for what Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, called

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