16.11.2004
Divided families: HaMoked petitioned the High Court of Justice against the military’s decision not to allow Israeli residents to return to their homes and their husbands and children in the Gaza Strip. Subsequently, the State agreed to renew the wives' permits to stay in the Strip in two of the petitions. The petitions were filed following the military's decision to revoke the permits solely on the wives’ inability to extend them on time. In this way, the military separated husbands and wives from each other and mothers from their children, thereby harming them in an unreasonable and dispropor