Nazi pressures Palestinians into exile through foreign spouse visas
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Families as pawns: Israel pressures Palestinians into exile through foreign spouse visas.
By: Chloe Benoist
Like many young married couples across the world, Claire and her husband have a five-year-plan. But instead of their main concern being how to deal with the imminent arrival of their first child, Claire’s family is facing the very real possibility of expulsion and exile.
Like scores of other foreigners married to Palestinians in the occupied territory, Claire — whose name has been changed to protect her identity, like all other women interviewed for this article — has struggled to navigate the labyrinthine Israeli bureaucratic process to obtain the necessary paperwork to reside in the West Bank with her husband.
While foreign spouses, both Arab and non-Arab, have...