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November 29, 2004
Children of Swedish Mother Offered For Sale By Palestinian Father
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesReported in FrontPageMagazine.com | November 29, 2004:
In
June 2004, Swedish mother Elizabeth Krantz's five children were
kidnapped from Sweden by Krantz's estranged Palestinian husband Ismail
Nowajah.
The children -- Adam, Amina, Zakarias, Miriam and Sara --
range in age from six to sixteen. They were taken to the Gaza Strip
against their will and in contravention of Swedish law and have since
been incarcerated in separate locations. Their mother, from a small
town outside Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast, has custody of the
children, with visitation rights granted to her estranged husband. Ismail
Nowajah says he disapproves of the upbringing his children were getting
in Sweden, where they were born, and that he wishes to bring them up
according to a stricter Islamic code, which he says cannot be done in
Sweden but is possible in Gaza. Nowajah has signaled, however, that he
is willing to release the children back into the custody of their
mother in exchange for five million Swedish kronor (about 720,000 US
dollars).
The children are Swedes. They are unfamiliar with Arab
culture and have no knowledge of the Arabic language. They are thus
unable to communicate in the environment into which they have been
forcibly placed. They are denied schooling, and 15-year-old Miriam
suffers from an unusual form of diabetes -- type 1 -- that requires
special medication, treatment that has thus far been denied her by her
father.. ..
........ The
welfare of five Swedish children and their Swedish mother simply gets
in the way of Swedish political ambition. The children have been sold
for political coinage -- and Swedish citizens are paying for the
children's incarceration with their own money.
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