SM Najmus Sakib<\/p>\n
19 July 2026\u2022Update: 19 July 2026<\/p>\n
Bangladesh has ordered immigration authorities to restore the phrase “except for Israel” on the country’s passports, reversing a change made under the government of ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2020.<\/p>\n
A Home Ministry order issued Sunday said the phrase “THIS PASSPORT IS VALID FOR ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD EXCEPT ISRAEL” will again appear in Bangladeshi e-passports.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh does not recognize Israel and has never had diplomatic relations with it.<\/p>\n
The ministry said the decision was made in line with Bangladesh’s foreign policy, public opinion and the country’s long-standing support for the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n
The order also directed authorities to add watermarks honoring key figures killed during the July-August 2024 monsoon uprising, which it said inspired thousands to overthrow Hasina’s 15-year rule.<\/p>\n
About 1,400 people were killed and thousands more were injured in the uprising, according to the UN. Hasina has been living in exile in India since Aug. 5.<\/p>\n
The order also said images and watermarks in the e-passport booklet had been revised, removing some imagery related to Bangladesh’s founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SM Najmus Sakib 19 July 2026\u2022Update: 19 July 2026 Bangladesh has ordered immigration authorities to restore the phrase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-549675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}