There are growing calls for a Meriden family stuck in the West Bank to be allowed to return home.

We’re told the mother and son – who are American citizens - were banned from leaving Israel because they’re Palestinian.

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“I want to go to America. I miss like school, I miss everything. I hope that they just put us on the next flight back home,” Musa Abdelghani, of Meriden, said.

On Friday, Abdelghani spoke exclusively to us from the West Bank where he and his mom are stuck and are just looking to return home to Meriden.

The family says two weeks ago Musa and his mother Intifada were not allowed to fly out of Israel when officials rejected their U.S. passports and demanded Palestinian Authority documents.

“As soon a

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