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Israeli Court Allows Gaza Christians to Pray in West Bank, Israel
[An Nahar] An Israeli court on Tuesday backed an Israeli government policy of allowing Christians from the Gazoo Strip to pray at Israeli and West Bank holy sites, and denying the enclave's Moslems the same right.The Supreme Court rejected an appeal lodged by six Gazoo Moslems and Israeli non-governmental organization Gisha to challenge a ruling of the Beersheba District Court, which refused to intervene against the policy. The six women were prevented from going to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site in east Jerusalem, to pray during a Moslem festival. They denounced the policy as discrimination in favor of Gazoo's 3,000 Christians and against around 1.6 million Moslems in the coastal enclave. The Israeli authorities justified on security grounds limitations on access to Moslems holy sites it imposes periodically through quotas, ages or residence conditions. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-08 |
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