On 11th October our delegation in Tubas met with the Asnar family.

They appealed to them to put pressure on the Israelis to allow Ezat Mohammed Asnar to return to the West Bank so he can visit his very ill daughter in hospital.

Please take a couple of minutes to send a letter to the Israeli Ministry of the interior. Below you will find some background information, a sample letter, and the email address you need to send it to.

Thank you for your support.

Background: why we are asking you to support this family

For two weeks now Abed El Baki has been in a specialist hospital in Jerusalem suffering from a cancerous brain tumour. She is a 23 year old graduate from Al-Quds Open University in Tubas with two children, one of whom is just over a month old. Her condition is grave and her family are travelling to Jerusalem as often as possible to be with her. However, her
father is stranded across the border in Jordan.

Ezat Mohammed Asnar is the father of Abed but is not being allowed into Palestine to visit his sick daughter. He has been working as a taxi driver in Jordan and has been denied permission to enter Palestine for three years now. Despite being born in Tubas, Palestine, he does not have a Palestinian identity card as he fled his home during the fighting in 1967
and has only been able to visit his family on one month visas granted by Israel.

Ezat currently has an application for a Palestinian ID outstanding but cannot finish the documentation without being in the West Bank. However, the Israelis will not allow him to enter the West Bank without the Palestinian ID. This catch-22 situation is prohibiting him from seeing his sick daughter and three sons who are all suffering from ill health.

Despite being the only member of the family able to work Ezat wants nothing more than to return to Palestine to be with his wife and children.
For Abed and her family the situation has reached crisis point and they have pleaded to all of us to help in any way we can by petitioning the Israelis to allow Ezat to see his daughter.

You can support Ezat’s right to return home to his family by signing the letter below and forwarding it to:

Sample letter

I am writing on behalf of Ezat Mohammed Asnar, a Palestinian-born man currently living in Jordan.

His daughter is suffering from a cancerous tumour of the brain and is currently in care of Al Makased hospital in Jerusalem. However, despite Ezat’s efforts to return home to his family he has been refused entrance due to the lack of a Palestinian Identity Card.

Ezat has made every effort to attain permission necessary to be with his daughter in her critical state, and is being refused this right on the grounds that he is required to be in the West Bank to complete the documentation needed for him to return home to the West Bank. This is ludicrous.

I am of the opinion that your position obliges you to work for the best interests of those people whose lives hang in the balance dependant on your support.

I demand that you recognise Ezat’s basic right to be with his family in their time of need and allow his return home to the West Bank.

(Your name)

Send to

 pniot@moin.gov.il

Eli Yishai,
Ministry of the Interior
2 Kaplan St., Qiryat Ben-Gurion
P.O. Box 6158, 91061 Jerusalem

Thank you again for your support

Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group