MK urges entry permits for relatives of Palestinian activist who died last week

Meretz MK Mossi Raz says he has urgently contacted Defense Minister Benny Gantz, asking for entry permits for relatives of an elderly Palestinian activist who died after being run over by a police tow truck during a January 5 demonstration against Israeli forces in the southern West Bank.

Raz says that Suleiman al-Hathalin’s death from his wounds last week has resulted in the automatic revocation of his family’s entry permits into Israel, and that his widow Maryam therefore underwent surgery today in Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital without her sons and other relatives accompanying her.

“The practice of revoking entry permits from those who lost a relative is sickening,” says Raz, calling on the government to “immediately approve the entry of Hathalin’s children and stop this practice.”