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Israel revokes travel permits of senior Palestinian officials

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki has travel permit rescinded after a Palestinian bid to ask the ICJ to rule on the Israeli occupation [File: Marco Bello/Reuters]

The Palestinian foreign minister says Israel has revoked his travel permit, part of a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians that Israel’s new hardline government announced days ago.

Riad al-Malki said in a statement on Sunday that he was returning from the Brazilian president’s inauguration when he was informed that Israel had rescinded his travel permit, which allows top Palestinian officials to travel easily in and out of the occupied West Bank, unlike ordinary Palestinians.

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