"The patients were returned because the Palestinian Authority started to use documents with the term 'State of Palestine'" instead of the Palestinian National Authority, the Israeli official quoted an Israeli liaison official as saying.
Israeli reports said that Israel will not accept any official documents that refer to a Palestinian state that Israel does not recognize.
Palestinian officials at the Palestinian side of Erez crossing, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that the term of the State of Palestine has been used on official documents for Palestinian patients for years, adding "Israel never returned any patients for this reason before. This is a surprising."
The Palestinians started to use the State of Palestine term instead of the Palestinian National Authority after the General Assembly upgraded Palestine's status to a nonmember observer state in November 2012.
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ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Israel on Thursday allowed the entry of some 35 Palestinian medical patients from the Gaza Strip after initially barring them because "State of Palestine" had appeared on the letterhead of their application.
A Palestinian official said Israel relented and permitted their entry without any change to the logo. An Israeli official said the letterhead had been changed to the "Palestinian Authority".
Israel does not recognize a Palestinian state, whose creation it says should stem from peace negotiations. It voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution in 2012 that gave de facto recognition to a sovereign Palestinian state.
"After our intervention, the Israelis allowed the patients to enter with the same papers, with the words State of Palestine," said Nasser al-Sarraj, deputy Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs..............http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-palestinians-israel-patients-idUSBREA1C0MK20140213?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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