Israel's interior ministry has placed travel bans on three senior officials in the northern branch of the Islamic Movement as rights groups accuse the government of cracking down on Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Along with the movement's leader Sheikh Raed Salah, travel bans were also issued to deputy leader Kamal Khatib and Yousef Awawdeh, head of the movement's public relations office.
Salah and Awawdeh are banned from traveling until January 15, 2016, while Khatib is forbidden from leaving the country until January 18.
Omar Khamayseh, a lawyer at the Nazareth-based Arab Association for Human Rights and Salah's legal representative, said the Israeli government has issued him several travel bans in the past.
"This part of the Israeli government political oppression of Arab activists in an attempt to silence them from speaking out against Israeli policies against Palestinians," Khamayseh told Al Jazeera.
