Disputes among the spouses lasted many years and Khatibova finally decided to divorce her husband.
At the beginning of January she left Israel for the Czech Republic and brought her daughter with her, claiming the father consented to it. Their 15-year-old son also lives in Israel. However, later the father addressed the International Office for Children's Rights Protection in Israeli accusing the mother of abducting the child to the Czech Republic. Khatibova said that there was a danger that the daugher could be returned to the father on the basis of the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. She said she was preparing to file a complaint with the Czech police against her Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ...
Relaunch of Israeli-Syrian peace talks possible ... daughter's abduction. According to Khatibova, the father recently arrived in the Czech Republic with the intention to abduct their daughter. At the end of May, the Czech Supreme Court (NS) issued a decision under which both children should return from the Czech Republic to Israel to live with their father. The court stressed, however, that this did not mean that it granted the children's custody to the father. The court stated that the mother brought children to Bruntal, north Moravia, illegally after she divorced their father. Originally, the Bruntal District Court and the Ostrava Regional Court ruled that the children would remain with their mother. However, the NS returned the case to the Ostrava court pointing out that nothing bad threatens the children in Israel and that they thus should return there. According to the NS's previous general verdict, Czech courts are obliged to thoroughly study the cases in which one of the parents kidnaps the child and leaves the Czech Republic with the children's well-being being their main consideration. The NS said courts should take into consideration the children's interests and wishes. In the case of the children from the Israeli-Czech family the NS said there was no reason for not allowing the children to return to Israel to live with their father. The Israeli authorities sent very good references about the father. "He lives with his mother in a three-bedroom flat where one of the rooms is furnished as a children's room. He works as a cook and his mother can help him care for children. She is willing and able to do so given her age and health condition," NS judges stated. Czech media recently highlighted the case of six-year-old Tereza Charlie Vichnarova whose father, coming from New Zealand, abducted her to Australia. A local court recently decided that the custody of the girl will be granted to her mother. The girl has returned to the Czech Republic already.
(Ceske Noviny)
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