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Avoid all travel to Palestine as a result of ongoing Israeli navy operations within the Gaza Strip and the unpredictable safety scenario within the West Bank.
This advisory excludes the next roads, the place you need to keep away from non-essential journey:
The safety scenario can deteriorate quickly in each Israel and Palestine.
Make positive your journey paperwork and people of your partner and kids are updated and safe always.
Avoid non-essential travel to Jerusalem as a result of unpredictable safety scenario and ongoing tensions within the area.
Avoid all travel to the elements of the Golan Heights that border Syria, east of Highway 98, on account of navy exercise.
Avoid all travel to the world inside 5 kilometres of the border with Lebanon on account of ongoing navy operations.
Avoid all travel to the world inside 10km of the border with the Gaza Strip as a result of threat of rocket and mortar hearth, gunfire and navy exercise.
There are ongoing tensions within the area. Hostilities might resume with little or no warning. During earlier assaults, missiles, drones and different projectiles have struck targets in Israel and Palestine.
Ben Gurion International Airport is open to industrial flights. However, ongoing tensions might lead to:
Land border crossings with Jordan and Egypt stay open. For West Bank ID holders, the Allenby/King Hussein bridge close to Jericho is the one obtainable exit choice. You should acquire a visa prematurely earlier than crossing.
You ought to:
If you encounter any particles or fragments:
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Military operations within the Gaza Strip
On October 7, 2023, terrorists primarily based within the Gaza Strip carried out a large-scale terrorist assault in Israel, leading to hundreds of casualties. Subsequently, Israel launched a navy offensive into the Gaza Strip. The operation has resulted in tens of hundreds of civilian casualties and led to vital injury to civilian infrastructure, equivalent to hospitals and colleges.
Your security is at excessive threat all through the Gaza Strip as a result of ongoing navy operations.
Ongoing hostilities and the restricted entry of humanitarian support have led to extreme shortages of primary provides and widespread disruptions to important providers all through the Gaza Strip, together with:
Military motion within the Gaza Strip might additional disrupt key infrastructure and transportation routes and restrict the supply of important providers all through the territory.
Travel out and in of the Gaza Strip is extraordinarily restricted, together with for humanitarian help and evacuations.
Due to infrastructure injury, connectivity within the Gaza Strip could also be unstable or unavailable. If attainable, attempt to register or replace your private data by the Registration of Canadians Abroad service to obtain the most recent data, together with about departure choices. If you might be unable to take action, attempt to contact Global Affairs Canada’s 24/7 Emergency Watch and Response Centre.
If you are a member of the family of a Canadian citizen or a everlasting resident who’s presently in Gaza, the West Bank or Israel and is unable to register by the Registration of Canadians Abroad service, please contact Global Affairs Canada’s 24/7 Emergency Watch and Response Centre.
Tensions and violence stay excessive within the West Bank.
Violent clashes between extremist Israeli settlers and Palestinians happen regularly in a number of areas, with civilians regularly focused, injured, or killed.
Israeli navy operations in cities and villages are additionally frequent, typically leading to accidents and deaths.
Israeli navy operations in cities and villages are additionally frequent, typically leading to accidents and deaths.
These operations happen most regularly in:
Movement restrictions are in place all through the West Bank, together with curfews and Israeli checkpoints, the place the danger of violent confrontation is heightened. Areas close to the barrier separating Israel and the West Bank are notably high-risk.
Violence additionally typically happens alongside primary roads and intersections the place passing autos could also be topic to random stops at checkpoints or focused with stone-throwing and different types of vandalism.
Individuals of Palestinian or Arab descent could also be topic to elevated scrutiny, detention, or arrest. Personal digital units could also be searched at Israeli navy checkpoints, together with flying checkpoints.
You, your mates, and your loved ones members might face detention, arrest, and/or the suspension or withdrawal of your official permits for those who share data deemed to be inaccurate and delicate by Israel. This contains content material shared on social media equivalent to political views. Be acutely aware of those potential penalties for those who focus on political beliefs on-line.
If you might be in or travelling to the West Bank regardless of the advisory in impact:
The safety scenario alongside the Mediterranean coast of the Gaza Strip stays harmful. The Israeli Navy repeatedly patrols the world and the Israeli safety forces proceed to intercept makes an attempt to breach Israel’s naval blockade.
These incidents have resulted in:
In circumstances of deportation, native authorities aren’t obliged to inform the Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv nor the Representative Office of Canada in Ramallah. As a consequence, Canadian officers might not be capable of give you consular help.
Border areas with Israel are notably harmful and closely guarded. Landmines are current in sure areas alongside Israel’s borders. Some minefields haven’t been clearly marked or fenced.
All Palestinian border areas, together with these with Israel, are tightly managed by Israeli authorities who prohibit entry and conduct frequent safety operations.
Militant exercise near the Israeli barrier within the Golan Heights makes the world extraordinarily harmful and unstable.
Despite the United Nations-monitored buffer zone between Israel and Syria within the Golan Heights, cross-border gunfire and rocket fires happen with little or no warning. The Israel Defence Forces additionally conduct navy operations within the space, together with air strikes.
The border space with Egypt is harmful on account of navy operations and smuggling actions.
The Israeli Defence Forces repeatedly patrols the world to intercept drug smugglers leading to frequent armed clashes.
The Rafah border crossing, which is the one choice to cross between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, is managed collectively by Egyptian and Israeli authorities. It has been closed since May 2024 as a result of ongoing battle within the Gaza Strip. There have been a number of strikes on the town of Rafah earlier than and after the border crossing closure. In northern Sinai, the safety scenario may also deteriorate quickly on account of instability and the danger of terrorist assaults.
Don’t drive on:
The highways are topic to closure by Israeli authorities with out warning.
If you are planning to journey close to the border with Egypt regardless of this advisory:
There isn’t any official worldwide border between Israel and Lebanon. The United Nations observe the “Blue Line,” which separates the 2 international locations, along with a fence constructed by Israel on its facet of the Blue line. There are sporadic clashes between Israeli and Lebanese armies patrolling alongside the Blue line.
Landmines are current within the space.
Terrorist teams primarily based in southern Lebanon have fired a big variety of rockets and missiles from Lebanon into northern Israel in response to the continued navy operations within the Gaza Strip, leading to air strikes by the Israel Defence Forces. On November 27, 2024, a ceasefire took impact between Israel and Lebanon, however hostilities might resume at any time.
Rockets fired from Lebanon have focused areas close to a number of cities in northern Israel and Palestine, together with:
There are ongoing navy operations within the following areas:
If you select to journey close to the border with Lebanon regardless of this advisory:
Confrontations and clashes can happen in areas of Jerusalem, together with elements of the Old City. Jerusalem has additionally seen an elevated variety of terrorist assaults focusing on civilians.
During durations of imposed motion restrictions and on non secular holidays, exacerbated tensions can result in safety incidents.
There are periodic clashes close to Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, together with round Al-Aqsa Mosque, particularly throughout Ramadan.
Due to current occasions in Israel, West Bank and the Gaza Strip, native authorities might shut or prohibit entry to checkpoints in and round Jerusalem.
Politically motivated violence happens repeatedly all through Israel and Palestine.
Previous incidents leading to accidents and deaths embrace:
During your keep:
There is a risk of terrorism in Israel. There have been a number of lethal assaults focusing on civilians.
Terrorist incidents inflicting quite a few deaths and accidents have occurred in a wide range of places, together with:
Further assaults are possible.
Targets might embrace:
Always concentrate on your environment when in public locations.
Be notably vigilant throughout:
Terrorists might use such events to mount assaults.
There is a risk of terrorism in Palestine, each within the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the place a number of terrorist teams are energetic.
In the West Bank, assaults primarily goal Israeli settlers, Israeli safety forces, rival Palestinian teams or the Palestinian Authority’s safety forces. There are additionally assaults between totally different factions in and round refugee camps.
Terrorists usually launch assaults from the Gaza Strip in direction of Israel and Israel’s Defence Forces, which frequently result in violent spillovers. Attacks are unpredictable and sometimes contain the next varieties of weapons and/or units:
Further assaults are possible.
Cities throughout Israel could also be focused by rocket hearth from the Gaza Strip or missile and rocket hearth from Lebanon.
Rockets fired from and in direction of the Gaza Strip have reached areas in its periphery.
The crime charge is comparatively low in Israel and Palestine. Despite an necessary presence of safety personnel in main cities, petty crime should still happen in city and touristic areas and on seashores.
There have been stories of:
There’s a rise in automobile thefts.
During your keep:
Planned and unplanned demonstrations happen repeatedly.
In Israel, demonstrators regularly collect to precise opposition to the federal government in place. These demonstrations and strikes typically lead to disruptions to providers and public transportation. They generally result in violent incidents, equivalent to vandalism and clashes between demonstrators and police. Security forces generally use tear fuel and water cannons to disperse crowds.
In the West Bank, demonstrations happen on or round non secular holidays and principally in response to ongoing occasions all through the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. They typically result in clashes between demonstrators and native safety forces, in addition to with the Israeli safety forces. Excessive drive has been used to disperse crowds, together with tear fuel, water cannons, rubber bullets, stun grenades and dwell ammunition.
Mass gatherings (large-scale occasions)
Coastal waters might be harmful. Tidal adjustments and powerful winds could cause harmful riptides.
Most roads in Israel are in good situation. Roads within the Gaza Strip are severely broken as a result of ongoing battle and navy operations. In the West Bank, roads are typically in poor situation.
During the winter months, precipitation could cause tough driving situations and highway closures throughout the territory.
Driving may additionally be harmful on account of:
There is a excessive charge of highway accidents on account of harmful driving habits throughout Israel and Palestine. Drivers typically drive at extreme pace and don’t at all times respect the correct of method, particularly in roundabouts.
It’s obligatory to have a excessive visibility vest and a warning triangle equipment in your automobile. If you have to cease on the facet of the highway and get out of your automobile, you have to put on the vest and use the triangles in line with the security directions supplied.
If you propose to drive:
There are safety checkpoints, primarily inside the West Bank and alongside its barrier with Israel.
The Israel Defence Forces management entry to the West Bank by a collection of safety checkpoints and the Palestinian Authority police might accomplish that inside their jurisdiction. Following incidents of politically motivated violence, the federal government of Israel may additionally set up further checkpoints with out warning and enhance the depth of car checks. Additional measures might embrace frequent and prolonged closures of checkpoints on the discretion of Israeli Security Forces.
Officers might ask to see your legitimate paperwork. There isn’t any assure that you could be go by safety checkpoints even you probably have a sound visa and authorization to enter.
During durations of spiritual holidays, checkpoint and border-crossing hours of operation are topic to vary.
If travelling by automobile throughout your keep:
The bus system is dependable in Israel. However, violent incidents and terrorist assaults happen sometimes in public buses and at bus stops. Attacks have resulted in deaths and accidents previously.
If you are travelling by bus throughout your keep:
The Israeli practice community is intensive. It covers many of the territory and hyperlinks main cities, equivalent to Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. This community doesn’t cowl the Gaza Strip and elements of the West Bank. In order to entry practice stations, you’ll have to go a safety examine.
Trains in Israel are typically trendy, clear and frequent.
If you are travelling by practice:
Taxis are typically dependable in Israel and the West Bank. In the West Bank, they’re the simplest method of shifting round.
Mobile purposes are additionally obtainable.
If you take a taxi:
We don’t make assessments on the compliance of overseas home airways with worldwide security requirements.
Information about overseas home airways
The authorities of a rustic or territory resolve who can enter or exit by its borders. The Government of Canada can not intervene in your behalf if you don’t meet your vacation spot’s entry or exit necessities.
We have obtained the data on this web page from the authorities of Israel and Palestine. It can, nevertheless, change at any time.
Verify this data with the Foreign Representatives in Canada.
Entry necessities range relying on the kind of passport you are travelling with.
Before you journey, examine together with your transportation firm about passport necessities. Its guidelines on passport validity could also be extra stringent than the nation’s entry guidelines.
Your passport should be legitimate for at the least 90 days past the date of entry into Israel, the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.
Different entry guidelines might apply.
While the Government of Canada points passports with an “X” gender identifier, it can not assure your entry or transit by different international locations. You may face entry restrictions in international locations that don’t acknowledge the “X” gender identifier. Before you allow, examine with the closest overseas consultant to your vacation spot.
Different entry guidelines might apply when travelling with a brief passport or an emergency journey doc. Before you allow, confirm this data with the closest overseas consultant to your vacation spot.
Palestine doesn’t challenge its personal visas. To enter Palestine, travellers should go by Israeli ports of entry and adjust to Israeli entry necessities.
Tourist visa: not required for stays of as much as 90 days
Business visa: not required
Student visa: not required
Work visa: required
Travellers from visa-exempt international locations, together with Canada, have to acquire an ETA-IL (digital journey authorization) to enter Israel. You ought to submit your digital utility at the least 72 hours earlier than your anticipated arrival date in Israel.
If your ETA-IL utility is authorized, you possibly can enter Israel and keep for a interval of as much as 90 days.
ETA-IL – Israeli Population and Immigration Authority
The Government of Israel points an entry card on arrival.
You will want this card to enter the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However, as a result of ongoing battle, entry to and exit from the Gaza Strip is extraordinarily restricted.
Keep it in a safe place to keep away from issues upon leaving Israel.
The Government of Israel tightly controls checkpoint crossings inside the West Bank and to the Gaza Strip.
Security-related closures can severely prohibit entry to and exit from these areas, even for individuals possessing legitimate entry and exit permits.
Large crowds might collect on account of:
This might enhance dangers to your private security.
The West Bank is split into three administrative divisions, which fall underneath various levels of administrative and safety management between Palestinian and Israeli authorities.
Israel units out the entry and exit necessities for the West Bank. In some circumstances, Israeli authorities might deny you entry into the West Bank.
You are required to acquire permits with strict situations for:
These new procedures apply to all overseas nationals. As a consequence, it’s possible you’ll want a selected kind of visa to enter the West Bank primarily based in your goal of journey.
If you plan to journey to the West Bank:
The Erez border crossing, managed by Israel, is presently closed. The Rafah border crossing, managed by each Egypt and Israel, has been closed since May 2024. Due to the continued battle, entry to and exit from the Gaza Strip is extraordinarily restricted.
As a Canadian citizen, it’s possible you’ll journey to and from Jordan by the next border crossings:
The safety scenario might lead to disruptions to motion and transportation, together with border closures or restrictions, particularly within the West Bank. These restrictions might make it tough to achieve the Allenby border crossing, which is the one exit choice for West Bank ID holders, even you probably have a Canadian passport. If you don’t have a West Bank ID, you need to use the opposite border crossings.
Canadians who had been born exterior Israel to a mom or father who’s an Israeli citizen could also be thought-about residents of Israel.
Israeli legislation requires Israeli residents to:
If you might be uncertain of your Israeli citizenship or your navy standing, confirm it by the Embassy of Israel to Canada or an Israeli consulate earlier than leaving Canada.
As a Palestinian-Canadian citizen, it’s possible you’ll be topic to Government of Israel journey rules for Palestinians. Strict border management insurance policies might stop you from coming into to and exiting from:
Anyone registered within the Government of Israel’s West Bank and Gaza Strip inhabitants registries, together with Canadian passport holders of Palestinian descent born within the West Bank or Gaza after 1967, is prohibited from coming into Israel by Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
Israeli authorities are presently solely permitting a restricted variety of Palestinians to enter into the West Bank by way of the Allenby Crossing (King Hussein Bridge). This rule might not apply to Palestinians with twin citizenship.
You may additionally be topic to the Government of Israel’s journey rules for Palestinians in case you are a Canadian born in one other Arab state or for those who maintain twin Canadian-Arab state citizenship.
Israeli authorities might then ask you to enter and exit Israel in your Arab passport.
If the native land listed on the traveller’s passport doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Israel, travellers could also be topic to elevated safety screening at factors of entry, together with intensive questioning, bodily searches and/or denial of entry, which may contain non permanent detention earlier than removing.
Some Canadians have been denied entry into Lebanon, Syria and different Arab international locations as a result of their passports bore:
Custom officers might ask to point out a return or onward ticket as proof that you’ve enough funds to cowl your keep.
Learn about travelling with youngsters.
Learn about potential entry requirements related to yellow fever (vaccines part).
This part has data and recommendation about well being dangers you may face when travelling. Following this recommendation may also help scale back your threat of getting sick. Not all dangers are listed right here.
It’s finest to speak to a healthcare supplier or go to a journey well being clinic ideally 6 weeks earlier than your journey to get customized well being recommendation. Even in case your journey date is developing quickly, it is nonetheless worthwhile to make an appointment.
Make positive your routine vaccinations are up-to-date earlier than you journey, regardless of the place you’re going.
These might embrace vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, varicella (chickenpox), meningococcal illness, seasonal flu, and others.
Provincial and Territorial Immunization Information
When travelling on this vacation spot, you may be in danger for ailments that may be prevented with vaccines or medicines. Talk to a journey well being care supplier about which of them are best for you primarily based in your journey plans.
The highlights under may also let you know in case your vacation spot might require that vaccine for coming into or exiting.
Yellow fever is a illness brought on by a flavivirus from the chunk of an contaminated mosquito.
Travellers get vaccinated both as a result of it’s required to enter a rustic or as a result of it’s endorsed for his or her safety.
Risk
Country Entry Requirement*
Recommendation
* It is necessary to notice that country entry requirements might not mirror your threat of yellow fever at your vacation spot. It is really helpful that you just contact the closest diplomatic or consular office of the vacation spot(s) you can be visiting to confirm any further entry necessities.
Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres in Canada
There is a threat of hepatitis A on this vacation spot. It is a illness of the liver. People can get hepatitis A in the event that they ingest contaminated meals or water, eat meals ready by an infectious particular person, or if they’ve shut bodily contact (equivalent to oral-anal intercourse) with an infectious particular person, though informal contact amongst individuals doesn’t unfold the virus.
Practise secure meals and water precautions and wash your fingers typically. Vaccination is really helpful for all travellers to areas the place hepatitis A is current.
In this vacation spot, rabies could also be current in some wildlife species, together with bats. Rabies is a plague that spreads to people primarily by bites or scratches from an contaminated animal.
If you might be bitten or scratched by an animal whereas travelling, instantly wash the wound with cleaning soap and clear water and see a well being care skilled.
Before journey, focus on rabies vaccination with a well being care skilled. It could also be really helpful for travellers who can be working straight with wildlife.
Polio (poliomyelitis) is an infectious illness that may be prevented by vaccination. It is brought on by poliovirus kind 1, 2 or 3. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus 2 (cVDPV2) is current on this nation.
Polio is unfold from individual to individual and thru contaminated meals and water. Infection with the polio virus could cause paralysis and demise in people of any age who aren’t immune.
Recommendations:
Measles is a critical viral an infection that spreads simply. It spreads by the air, and might keep within the air for as much as 2 hours. You may also get measles by direct contact with an contaminated particular person or by touching a floor with the virus on it after which touching your eyes, nostril, or mouth earlier than washing your fingers.
Getting vaccinated is one of the best ways to guard your self and others from measles. In Canada, the measles vaccine is a part of the routine immunization schedule. If you’re uncertain whether or not you’re protected, speak to a healthcare supplier.
Learn extra:
Hepatitis B is a threat in each vacation spot. It is a viral liver illness that’s simply transmitted from one particular person to a different by publicity to blood and physique fluids containing the hepatitis B virus. Travellers who could also be uncovered to blood or different bodily fluids (e.g., by sexual contact, medical remedy, sharing needles, tattooing, acupuncture or occupational publicity) are at increased threat of getting hepatitis B.
Hepatitis B vaccination is really helpful for all travellers. Prevent hepatitis B an infection by working towards secure intercourse, solely utilizing new and sterile drug gear, and solely getting tattoos and piercings in settings that comply with public well being rules and requirements.
COVID-19 is an infectious viral illness. Most of the time, it spreads when individuals are in shut contact with others who’re contaminated with the virus. It spreads by respiratory particles, or by an contaminated floor or object.
Vaccination is likely one of the most necessary methods to guard your self from creating critical issues from COVID-19. Talk to a healthcare supplier concerning the COVID-19 vaccine earlier than travelling. Evidence reveals that the COVID-19 vaccines utilized in Canada are very efficient at stopping extreme sickness, hospitalization and demise from COVID-19.
In addition to vaccination, use private protecting measures to assist defend your self and others.
Learn extra :
Vaccine for COVID-19: How to get vaccinated
COVID-19: Spread, prevention and risks
The finest approach to defend your self from seasonal influenza (flu) is to get vaccinated yearly. Get the flu shot at the least 2 weeks earlier than travelling.
The flu happens worldwide.
The flu vaccine obtainable in a single hemisphere might solely supply partial safety towards the flu within the different hemisphere.
The flu virus spreads from individual to individual after they cough or sneeze or by touching objects and surfaces which were contaminated with the virus. Clean your fingers typically and put on a masks you probably have a fever or respiratory signs.
Eating or ingesting unsafe meals or water, or swimming in contaminated water could make you sick whereas travelling. Take precautions by following the following pointers:
Eat and drink safely overseas
Travellers’ diarrhea is the commonest sickness affecting travellers. It is unfold from consuming or ingesting contaminated meals or water.
Risk of creating travellers’ diarrhea will increase when travelling in areas with poor requirements of hygiene and sanitation. Practise secure meals and water precautions.
The most necessary remedy for travellers’ diarrhea is rehydration (ingesting a lot of fluids). Carry oral rehydration salts when travelling.
Typhoid is a bacterial an infection unfold by contaminated meals or water. Risk is increased amongst youngsters, travellers going to rural areas, travellers visiting mates and kin or these travelling for an extended time frame.
Travellers visiting areas with a threat of typhoid, particularly these uncovered to locations with poor sanitation, ought to communicate to a well being care skilled about vaccination.
Many ailments are unfold by bites from contaminated ticks and bugs like mosquitoes, fleas, or flies. Before you journey, discover out what varieties of ticks or bugs are within the space, after they’re most energetic, and what ailments they will unfold.
To defend your self from bites:
Insect bite and pest prevention
Personal insect repellents
Some infections can unfold straight from animals to individuals, like rabies or hen flu (avian influenza). Others don’t unfold straight from animals however can infect individuals who go to areas animals have contaminated with their droppings or physique fluids.
Certain actions can enhance your possibilities of coming into contact with animals, their droppings, or their physique fluids, like:
To scale back your threat of getting sick:
Make positive to carefully watch youngsters; they’re extra prone to attempt to contact animals.
When travelling, you possibly can scale back your threat of getting or spreading respiratory infections, just like the flu or COVID-19, by:
Mass gatherings (large-scale occasions)
Clean your hands to help reduce the spread of infectious diseases
Respiratory infectious diseases: How to reduce the spread with personal protective measures
To decrease your threat of getting sexually transmissible infections (STIs), HIV, and mpox, you possibly can:
Mpox vaccines
Sexual health and travel
HIV and AIDS: Travel health advice
Some prescription remedy might not be obtainable in Israel or Palestine, particularly within the Gaza Strip.
If you are taking prescription remedy, you are chargeable for figuring out their legality at vacation spot.
Very good well being care is offered in Israel and Jerusalem. Adequate well being care is offered within the West Bank, however extraordinarily restricted within the Gaza Strip as a result of intensive injury brought on by the continued Israeli navy operations Palestinian medical amenities might lack medical provides and adequately skilled professionals.
Medical remedy might be very costly. Hospitals and medical doctors might require quick fee by card or in money.
Make positive you get journey insurance coverage that features protection for medical evacuation and hospital stays.
Health and security exterior Canada
The determination to journey is the only duty of the traveller. The traveller can be chargeable for his or her personal private security.
Be ready. Do not count on medical providers to be the identical as in Canada. Pack a journey well being equipment, particularly if you can be travelling away from main metropolis centres.
You should abide by native legal guidelines.
Learn about what you need to do and the way we may also help in case you are arrested or detained overseas.
Canada and Israel are signatories to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons. This permits a Canadian imprisoned in Israel to request a switch to a Canadian jail to finish a sentence. The switch requires the settlement of each Canadian and Israeli authorities.
This course of can take a very long time, and there’s no assure that the switch can be authorized by both or each side.
Penalties for possession, use or trafficking of unlawful medicine, are extreme. Convicted offenders can count on jail sentences and fines.
Drugs, alcohol and journey
Although alcohol consumption in public is unlawful within the Gaza Strip, you possibly can drink alcohol in sure areas within the West Bank. Avoid ingesting alcohol exterior licensed premises within the West Bank.
Photography of delicate installations is prohibited. This contains:
Seek permission earlier than taking pictures of individuals in Muslim or Orthodox Jewish areas.
Both the Palestinian and Israeli authorities acknowledge twin citizenship. If you maintain or used to carry a Palestinian ID card, it’s possible you’ll be thought-about a Palestinian nationwide whereas within the West Bank, the Gaza Strip or Israel.
Foreign nationals naturalized residents of Israel should forfeit their earlier citizenship.
If you’re a Canadian citizen, but in addition a citizen of Israel or Palestine, our potential to give you consular providers could also be restricted whilst you’re there. You may additionally be topic to totally different entry/exit necessities.
Dual residents
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is a global treaty. It may also help mother and father with the return of kids who’ve been eliminated to or retained in sure international locations in violation of custody rights. The conference applies between Canada and Israel.
If your youngster was wrongfully taken to, or is being held in Israel, and if the relevant situations are met, it’s possible you’ll apply for the return of your youngster to the Israeli court docket.
If you might be on this scenario:
If your youngster was faraway from a rustic aside from Canada, seek the advice of a lawyer to find out if The Hague Convention applies.
Be conscious that Canadian consular officers can not intervene in personal authorized issues or abroad’s judicial affairs.
The Hague Convention doesn’t apply between Canada and the State of Palestine.
Some Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities’ customs, legal guidelines and rules adhere carefully to non secular practices and beliefs.
Tensions between non secular teams are increased throughout non secular holidays and will result in violence.
There is a threat of assault for those who journey by automobile within the Old City of Jerusalem and conservative neighbourhoods of Israel throughout Shabbat.
To keep away from offending native sensitivities, particularly throughout non secular holidays:
Israeli legislation doesn’t criminalize sexual acts or relationships between individuals of the identical intercourse.
Same-sex consensual acts are authorized in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
2SLGBTQI+ individuals might nonetheless be discriminated towards or victims of harassment and/or violence primarily based on their sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, or intercourse traits.
The Gaza Strip’s legislation criminalizes sexual acts and relationships between individuals of the identical intercourse.
2SLGBTQI+ individuals may very well be detained primarily based on their sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, or intercourse traits.
They may additionally be detained and face different prices equivalent to:
2SLGBTQI+ individuals might withstand 10 years of imprisonment. They ought to fastidiously contemplate the dangers of travelling to the Gaza Strip.
Travel and your sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression and intercourse traits
You might drive in Israel utilizing your Canadian driver’s license for as much as 12 months.
Vehicles with Palestinian licence plates aren’t permitted to enter Israel except granted a allow by Israeli authorities prematurely. If you might be planning to enter the West Bank with a rented automobile, confirm your insurance coverage protection and permissions together with your automobile rental company.
You ought to carry an International Driving Permit.
International Driving Permit
The foreign money of Israel is the Israeli Shekel (ILS).
Palestine doesn’t have an official foreign money, however the Jordanian Dinar (JOD), the Israeli Shekel (NIS) and the U.S. Dollar (USD) are all accepted.
ATMs can be found in Israel and the West Bank, however might not settle for Canadian playing cards. The banking system within the West Bank is fragile and primarily depends on card funds for day-to-day transactions.
In Gaza, there are not any ATMs or banks. The solely type of fee is money.
Israel and Palestine are situated in an energetic seismic zone.
Even minor earthquakes could cause vital injury.
Sandstorms and dirt storms happen in spring and summer time in some areas. Sand-laden winds can blow at excessive speeds for days, creating tough driving situations. These storms may also result in respiratory issues for some people.
During a sandstorm:
Heavy rains, notably throughout winter, could cause flooding and landslides all through the territory.
Roads might develop into impassable and infrastructure broken.
Wildfires might happen all through the territory on account of excessive temperatures and dry situations, notably throughout summer time. The air high quality in areas close to energetic fires might deteriorate on account of heavy smoke.
In case of a big hearth:
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