by the attorney general as excluding lifesaving treatments. It thus did not apply to the petitioners, and the court did not have to rule on its legality.

The court reiterated its previous rulings regarding Israel’s duties to residents of Gaza. It stated that since 2005, Israel was no longer an occupying power in Gaza, that no foreign subject had a right to enter Israel, and that this was particularly true with regard to subjects of a “hostile area.” The legal question was thus confined to the narrow exception of permission to enter Israel on humanitarian grounds pursuant to the relevant immigration law. The question was whether the criteria applied by the state, within this narrow exception, were legitimate. The government’s repeated claim, that no foreign subject had a right to enter Isr...

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