WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s cabinet has agreed to submit a racist law to the Knesset, parliament, media have reported.
The proposed law was introduced by extreme right-wing Zionist interior minister Ayelet Shaked who appears to be banking on support for this bill from the opposition, said the Times of Israel.
According to the daily, sending the so-called Citizenship Law to the Knesset was approved despite an objection from the Meretz and Ra’am parties. Parliament is expected to vote on the bill this week. If passed, it would renew a ban on permits for Palestinians who marry Palestinians to live with their spouses in the occupied territories.
Shaked, a staunch opponent of uniting Palestinian families said that the law would be brought again before the Knesset (parliament) on Wednesday for a vote, expecting that lawmakers were going this time to uphold the ban.
In July last year, the Israeli Knesset, voted not to renew the law, which came up every year since 2003 for a vote and was constantly upheld.
The move had opened the way for thousands of Palestinians who applied over the years to be unified with their families inside the occupied territories or in the occupied East Al-Quds to demand a review of their application.
The latest developments also come days after an international rights group said in a recent report that Zionist regime authorities must be held accountable for enforcing a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians.
Released on Tuesday, the 280-page report details how regime authorities enforce a system of oppression and domination against the Palestinians.
The occupying regime is carrying out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” and must be held accountable for treating them as “an inferior racial group.”
The report lists a range of abuses, including extensive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, administrative detention and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians.
The group in a separate statement described these as components of a system that amounts to apartheid under international law. “This system is maintained by violations which the group found to constitute apartheid as a crime against humanity.”
Last year, more than 600 scholars, artists, and intellectuals from over 45 countries across the world lambasted the Zionist regime’s practices against Palestinians, calling for an immediate end to “Israel’s apartheid regime” in the occupied territories.