"Mommy, why does Daddy have to sleep on the Israeli side?"Jinan asks the same question she always does. And her mother, Salam Nazal, comforts her by saying: "Because that's where the best Palestinian men go to sleep, and your father is one of them." A daughter desire to visit her father in jail requires a great deal of steps that is discussed in the article, Visiting Daddy in Prison: A Palestinian Ordeal by Tim Mcgirk. Salam Nazal cannot accompany her daughters because she is an on Israeli security watch list, although she has never learned why. However with the thought of not being able to attend with her daughter she fears her safety. "I'm so worried about having them go without me," says Salam"But what can I do? This is their only chance to see their father." Israel refuses to finance or arrange transportation for Palestinians making prison visits, leaving the task to the Red Cross.Every month, says Anne-Sophie Bonefeld, an ICRC spokeswoman in Jerusalem, her organization arranges the bus-rides and bureaucratic paperwork that enables more than 20,000 Palestinians to visit relatives inside Israeli prisons.
Questions:
1) Do you believe that Salam Nazal should accompany her daughter since she is underage despite her name on the security watch list?
2) Is it considered a form of racism to not allow transportation for Palestinians?
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