Palestine: Planning a Virtual Funeral · Global Voices
Ayesha Saldanha

It is extremely difficult for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to visit Israel, and for political reasons it is impossible for most other Arabs to do so, because Israel is not recognised as a state by the majority of Arab countries. At the same time, Palestinian citizens of Israel (approximately 20% of the population) are unable to travel to much of the Arab world, because they have Israeli passports.
Rasha Hilwi, who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has been reflecting on how these restrictions on movement will affect her – after she dies.
In a post on her blog, Zaghroda (which means “ululations”), Rasha writes [ar]:
Akka sunset. Image by Flickr user yanivba (CC BY-SA 2.0).
She continues:
Rasha wonders: