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Foreign Ministry denies Livni helped get Israeli ID for Palestinian official's daughter
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Qureia, Livni 

A foreign ministry official on Tuesday denied that the daughter of senior Palestinian peace negotiator Ahmed Qureia obtained an Israeli identification card, with the intervention of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

According to a recent news report by Channel 10 television, Qureia approached Livni to help his daughter, Mona, obtain a blue Israeli ID card, granted by Israel to very few Palestinians.
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Following the report, Qureia approached Livni and said his daughter had never been issued a blue ID. The Foreign Ministry then confirmed with the Interior Ministry that Qureia was right, and that his daughter had not received the blue card.

Mona is married to an East Jerusalem resident, but under Israel's Family Reunification Law, Palestinians are not automatically eligible for those rights even if they marry an ID cardholder.

The identification card guarantees national insurance benefits and freedom of movement to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem.

The Foreign Minister's bureau said they received a request from Qureia ten months ago, but their response at the time was that the Livni did not deal with issues of this kind. Qureia was then referred to the Interior Ministry without the involvement of Livni or any person from her bureau.

Livni and Qureia head Israeli and Palestinian teams that meet every few days in an attempt to negotiate a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.

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