Somerville voters will have the chance to weigh in on the city’s involvement in the war in Gaza this November after a challenge to a proposed ballot question failed.

The ballot question, which would call on city government to stop doing business with any companies with ties to Israel over the country’s occupation of Palestine, had faced a legal challenge but was approved by the city’s Elections Commission at a hearing Monday.

“The residents of Somerville deserve the opportunity to debate and decide on this measure for themselves,” said Amina Awad, a Palestinian-American Somerville resident, in a statement. “In a democracy, we are owed the right to speak freely about our beliefs without retaliation, or the threat of violence, or intimidation.”

The ballot question, known as Question 3, is

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