Israeli Court Allows Gaza Christians to Pray in West Bank, Israel
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An Israeli court on Tuesday backed an Israeli government policy of allowing Christians from the Gaza Strip to pray at Israeli and West Bank holy sites, and denying the enclave's Muslims the same right.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal lodged by six Gaza Muslims 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 Muslim festival.
They denounced the policy as discrimination in favor of Gaza's 3,000 Christians and against around 1.6 million Muslims in the coastal enclave.
The Israeli authorities justified on security grounds limitations on access to Muslims holy sites it imposes periodically through quotas, ages or residence conditions.
07 August 2012, 22:53
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Welcome Christians , off with the Muslims. Where they go there is death and blood.
08 August 2012, 09:37
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Why all the write-up.
I can imagine that the Gaza moslems want to pray at al-Aksa etc., but how many of the 700,000 Israelis who had to flee the Arab states want to go back to pray at their holy sites and are not allowed in.
At least the Gaza Moslems can apply to the Israeli Supreme Court, could you see any Israeli Jews being able to apply to the Syrian, Iranian, or Iraqi Supreme Courts? I can't.
