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ei: Separation of families "priority humanitarian issue"

ei: Separation of families "priority humanitarian issue": "JERUSALEM, 14 October 2007 (IRIN) - Some 580 women living in the occupied Golan region are disconnected from their families in Syria as they are not allowed to cross from the occupied zone to their homeland, a new women's organization has said."

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