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It was signed by the head of the Sharia Supreme Judicial Council in the Strip, Hassan al-Jojo, who is also the president of the Sharia Supreme Court in the coastal enclave. The first section of the circular is considered relatively positive and is meant to prevent children from being forcibly removed from the care of their mothers. It prohibits the father from traveling with his children without their mother’s permission (when the children are of an age at which their mother is their guardian).
The second section permits a divorced father to travel with his children if his ex-wife has remarried and is no longer their guardian. In both these cases, the permission is granted by a Sharia court. In all cases, the mother, whether divorced or not, needs the permission of the children’s father to travel with her children. The most problematic sections, in the view of Palestinian human rights organizations and feminist activist