He commuted daily from Bethlehem to Jerusalem with a work permit issued by the Patriarchate. However, he wasn’t allowed on the quick bypass roads because of his West Bank ID. Therefore, he had to catch a shuttle van that skirted around Jerusalem and dropped him off at Abu Dis from where he took another car to Jerusalem—a circuitous trip for a Jerusalem native. Nadia had it even worse. She had worked for years at the East Jerusalem YWCA and sat on the boards of several NGOs in Jerusalem. However, the Israeli government denied her a permit to enter Jerusalem so she couldn’t go back to her work
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Like this is made to make their lives miserable and difficult in every which way.
