Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign News

Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign News

October 31, 2006

Israel backs down on visas for Palestinians from US

By Harry de Quetteville in Ramallah - (click here to read full story)
Last Updated: 1:39am GMT 30/10/2006

Israel may be forced to reverse a controversial policy of expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza after a vigorous protest from America.

Sam Bahour was finally granted a new tourist visa
The U-turn, which marks a rare official dressing-down for Israel from Washington, comes after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, raised objections to a policy that could have seen tens of thousands of Palestinian foreign passport holders driven from their homes in the Occupied Territories.

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