Israel Will Allow U.S. Lawmaker Tlaib to Make Humanitarian Visit
- Trump intervened on Thursday seeking to prevent weekend trip
- Tlaib, Omar have supported campaign to boycott Israel
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Israel said on Friday it will allow U.S. Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to visit her family for humanitarian reasons, a day after barring her and a fellow Muslim lawmaker from entering the country under heavy pressure from President Donald Trump.
The permission allows Tlaib to meet her 90-year-old grandmother in the West Bank, the country’s interior minister said in a statement, adding that the lawmaker agreed in a letter not to restate her support for a boycott of Israel during the visit. That was a condition laid out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a firm Trump ally.