Our lives are inescapably political. Israel controls every aspect of our lives, down to where we can reside and how and whether we can move through individual area-specific ID cards, known as “hawyia,” issued by the military authorities. The hawiya is also used to prevent and restrict my movement from other areas Israel controls. It even nullifies any journalistic privileges I might possess. As one Israeli army officer once explained to me once, “We consider you as Palestinians, and therefore security threats, first; as journalists, second.” But most shocking of all, it is used to prevent thousands of Palestinians with different residency cards from living together with their spouses in their respective hometowns.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:59:16 +0000
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