With a perfectly straight face, and their usual air of polite and respectful seriousness, the pioneering Israeli human rights organization GISHA is now challenging the religious discrimination that is apparent in the non-issuance of Israeli permits — to Palestinian Muslims locked inside Gaza — to pray at the third-holiest site in Islam, Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of East Jerusalem.
GISHA has filed a case — on International Women’s Day — on behalf of seven Palestinian women in Gaza who have been unable to get Israeli permits to pray at Al-Aqsa.
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