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Travel ban · Court ruling
Court lets deported prisoner’s wife leave West Bank, rights group says
A West Bank woman was twice stopped as she tried to join her husband, a released prisoner deported to Egypt. A judge found the security information on her “extremely scant” and ordered she be allowed to leave, HaMoked says.
A West Bank woman was twice turned back at the Allenby crossing, under a “security ban,” as she tried to leave to join her husband, according to HaMoked, the Israeli rights group representing her. Her husband, a Palestinian prisoner freed in a prisoner exchange deal, was deported to Egypt.
HaMoked asked the military to lift the ban on April 9, 2026. Two days later the military replied: “You are the wife of a terrorist operative deported abroad.” On May 11, HaMoked filed an administrative petition, arguing that the ban might reflect a desire to punish her for her husband’s actions.
In a July 26 judgment covering her case and a second woman’s, the court ordered the state to let both women leave the West Bank, if each agrees not to return for four years. The judge found the classified security information on each woman “extremely scant,” HaMoked said.
HaMoked says this is the first time the court has approved the departure of women married to deported prisoners, and that it may set a precedent. HaMoked did not name the court or the women. The group says the military commander denies thousands of residents’ requests to travel abroad every year.
You are the wife of a terrorist operative deported abroad.— the Israeli military’s reply to the woman’s request to lift her travel ban, as quoted by HaMoked
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