ISRAEL PUNISHED FOR HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM

Terrorists ´reunified´ with family
One in nine Palestinians who carried out terrorist attacks during the intifada had received Israeli residency under family-reunification arrangements, a top Israeli security official said. Yuval Diskin, who heads Israel’s Shin Bet security service, testified Monday before a Knesset committee that is considering changes to a law that grants permanent-resident status to some West Bank Palestinians with relatives in Israel. Ha’aretz quoted Diskin as telling the closed committee that 99 percent of terrorists are men between the ages of 16 and 35 and women under the age of 25. Palestinians in those age groups are barred from receiving permanent residence, he said. Critics say that it’s racist to place restrictions on Palestinian family reunification.