{"id":1437,"date":"2012-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/egypt-grants-citizenship-to-children-of-palestinian-fathers\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:29:03","slug":"egypt-grants-citizenship-to-children-of-palestinian-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-grants-citizenship-to-children-of-palestinian-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt grants citizenship to children of Palestinian fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; The Egyptian Ministry of Interior has granted citizenship to 651 children with non-Egyptian fathers, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Interior Muhammad Ibrahim said the decision would affect 603 children with Palestinian fathers and Egyptian mothers, Al-Ahram newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2004, the children of Egyptian women married to foreigners were denied Egyptian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians in Egypt were left out of amendments to the law amid claims that granting them citizenship would contradict the Arab League\u2019s position to protect the Palestinian right of return.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the Arab League said there was no connection between the right of return and the right to Egyptian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/eng\/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=452250\">http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/eng\/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=452250<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAIRO (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; The Egyptian Ministry of Interior has granted citizenship to 651 children with non-Egyptian fathers, local media reported. Minister of Interior Muhammad Ibrahim said the decision would affect 603 children with Palestinian fathers and Egyptian mothers, Al-Ahram newspaper reported. Prior to 2004, the children of Egyptian women married to foreigners were denied Egyptian [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","region-north-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-490","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}