A gay couple and their three children were denied entry to a national park with their family pass because they were deemed to “not be a family,” Channel 12 reports.
The incident occurred on Saturday, and the family was only allowed to enter the Nahal Yehudia reserve in the Golan Heights after the intervention of a supervisor.
In a video of the interaction, a woman can be seen refusing to open the gate. One of the men asks her, “Repeat that. Say that we are not a family.”
“You’re a family?” she asks. “Go speak to him,” she says, referring to the supervisor.
In response to the incident, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority apologizes for the incident, calling it “an unfortunate isolated incident that does not represent the policies of the authority.”
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