TEL AVIV, December 12, 2006, (WAFA)-Israeli Committee for Right of Residency "ICRR", called for the people of the world to organise campaigns to inform international officials across the world about Israel's policy of entry-denied.

In a press release issued Tuesday, ICRR also asked Israelis and citizens of other countries to write letters of protest to the Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and for those who are academics or are in the medical profession to additionally write to the Minister of Education and Minister of Health.

In March 2006, the Israeli government initiated a policy of visa denial to individuals of Palestinian descent having foreign passports, many of whom Israel has arbitrarily denied residency rights to in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

Many of these persons have lived in the OPT for years without succeeding to obtain residency rights even though they made Palestine their primary residence and place of employment/business, married local Palestinians, and had children who were born in Palestine.

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