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Hanatsheh's young children ask why their father's never home and doesn't pick them up at school like other kids' parents. Moreover, when he was detained in 2002, Bayan became seriously ill. His lawyer used medical reports to get him released. Denying his motion, an arrogant military judge said:
"The lives of the Israeli public are more important than Walid's life or his wife's life."
In fact, Hanatsheh threatens no one. Humanitarian activism got him arrested and detained. Moreover, Jerusalemite Bayan applied numerous times for ID permission to let him live with her and family members. Each time she was denied for "security reasons."
In fact, when free, he's denied entry into Jerusalem. He's also prevented from traveling outside Palestine for conferences and workshops related to his humanitarian work even though it's peaceful and not threatening.
Addameer calls his detention an affront to justice and "deliberate violation of his fundamental freedoms and special protections provided under international law for human rights defenders, particularly freedoms of movement, expression, association and peaceful assembly."
It's also one of many examples of ruthless Israeli state terrorism. Denying it's not an option.
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