Ma'an
Israeli police handed prominent Jerusalem researcher Khalil At-Tafkahi a signed order by the Minister of Internal Security preventing him from traveling outside the country for a period of six months. The order cites "security reasons" for the ban.
A Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, At-Tafkahi is the Director of the Cartographic Section in the Arab Studies Society (Beit Ash-Sharq) and an expert on settlements and settlement expansion.
At-Tafkahi said he considered the order evidence that Israel does not want peace. "I am a peace man," he said, recalling he was in the delegation of Palestinians who attended peace talks from Oslo to Taba (1992-2001) ... Full story
