Laith Abu Zeyad Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are not allowed to travel internationally through Israel’s airport – they must cross into Jordan and fly from Amman. Israel, however, routinely imposes travel bans on Palestinians, citing ‘security reasons’ – many do not know they are banned from traveling until they arrive at the crossing. Between 2015 and 2019, Israeli NGO HaMoked filed 797 travel ban appeals, 65 percent of which were lifted. In other words, most bans are completely unjustified. In September 2019, Amnesty International’s West Bank-based campaigner Laith Abu Zeyad was banned by Israel from accompanying his mother for medical treatment in Jerusalem. Israeli authorities subsequently even prevented him from seeing his mother before her death. In October 2019, Laith was also banned from traveling to Jordan to attend his aunt’s funeral.