Dhaka:
Amid public anger against Israeli’s work at Gaza Patti in Bangladesh, the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has stopped its citizens from traveling to the Jewish kingdom. The Bangladesh government has re -presented the inscription “except Israel” on its passport, which was removed by the Sheikh Hasina government in 2021, when Israel was being censored globally for its attacks in Gaza.
The state said that the Bangladesh Ministry asked the Passport and Immigration Department to restore the punishment, “This passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel” in the official travel permit for citizens coming abroad, BSS News Agency said.
“We issued a letter (instruction) on 7 April,” the news agency said.
Bangladesh’s ‘except Israel’ policy
The old Bangladeshi passport used to have a sentence- “This passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel.” It was now demolished in 2021 under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the Awami League government. Officials at that time said that he had not changed his position towards Israel, but the phrase was removed from the passport to maintain the international standards of the document.
At that time, the foreign minister of the country, an Abdul Momeman, said, “No one can visit Israel from Bangladesh”, and if anyone does, “legal action will be taken against the person,” The country’s foreign minister at that time told Al Jazeera.
However, after the change, Bangladeshi citizens were allowed to travel from the third country to Israel if they could receive a visa, as none of the 17 legal acts that control the immigration rules of the South Asian nation can put on a visit once.
Anti -Israel protest in Bangladesh
However, the disclosure came a day after the disclosure, thousands of protesters of thousands of protesters to condemn Israeli works at Gaza Strip in Dhaka, carrying hundreds of Palestinian flags and chanting slogans such as “free, free Palestine”.
The main protest was held at the Suharradi Park in Central Dhaka near the Premier Dhaka University, and many of them defeated US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s images, accusing him of supporting Israel.
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party and right -wing Islamic groups and parties expressed solidarity with the rally.
The Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people does not have any diplomatic relations with Bangladesh, Israel, and it officially supports an independent Palestine.