Israel blocks Palestinian activist from traveling abroad
ABC News
Israel has prevented the director of a Palestinian civil-society group from traveling abroad to attend a professional conference in Mexico
JERUSALEM -- Israel has prevented the director of a Palestinian civil-society group from traveling abroad to attend a professional conference in Mexico.
Ubai Aboudi is the head of Bisan, one of six Palestinian groups that Israel last year designated a terrorist organization. Israeli officials declined to comment on the travel ban.
In an interview, Aboudi said he tried to exit the occupied West Bank last week in order to travel to the World Social Forum, an annual gathering of civil society groups that this year is taking place in Mexico. But he said he was stopped by Israeli officials at the crossing into Jordan.
“I was informed that I am banned from traveling. I asked why I am banned from traveling. They said they did not want to inform me,” he said. Aboudi, who is a U.S. citizen, said that just a month earlier, he traveled to Jordan without any problems.
