Palestinian women sit at a cafe on a beach in Gaza City February February 16, 2021.REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's top Islamic judge agreed on Tuesday to revise a recent court ruling that bars women from travel without permission from a male guardian such as a husband or father.
The restriction, imposed on Sunday by the Higher Sharia Council in Islamist Hamas-run Gaza, had drawn criticism from rights groups which said it violated Palestinian laws against gender-based descrimination.
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