by Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff
Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri is accused of numerous offenses, like PFLP membership and trying to kill former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
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Salah Hamouri shows his French passport during an interview with
Reuters in the neighbourhood of Dahiyet al-Barid, December 19, 2011
(photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMAD TOROKMAN)
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Israel deported French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri on Sunday, who is accused of security offenses, the Israeli Interior Ministry said.
France's foreign ministry denounced his deportation and said that the French government had actively sought to defend his rights and has been in contact with Israeli authorities multiple times.
"We condemn the Israeli authorities' decision against the law to deport Salah Hamouri to France," the ministry said in a statement.
Ahmed Majdalani, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the deportation unlawful.
“He didn’t commit any crime to be deported from his homeland and be expelled into another country, where he had stayed for a short period even if he holds the nationality of that country,” Majdalani told Reuters.
Salah Hamouri poses for a photograph with his mother during an
interview with Reuters in the West Bank neighbourhood of Dahiyet
al-Barid, on the outskirts of Jerusalem December 19, 2011. (credit:
MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS)Hamouri was escorted to the airport where he boarded a flight to France, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry did this after revoking his residency permit in east Jerusalem on December 1, after Israel arrested him and placed him under administrative detention without charge on March 7.
Who is Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri?
Hamouri, an east Jerusalem resident born to a Palestinian father and French mother, is a lawyer and researcher working for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, one of the six Palestinian NGOs declared by Israel to be terrorist organizations. He has also been accused of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is also recognized as a terrorist group.
Back in 2005, Hamouri was arrested after being charged with plotting to assassinate then-Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. However, he was released in 2011 as part of the prisoner exchange with Hamas to free IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.
Since then, he has been arrested multiple times for a variety of reasons.
Former interior minister Arye Deri, who also leads the Shas Party of which Ovadia Yosef was the spiritual leader, has on more than one occasion threatened to have his Jerusalem residency permit revoked and be deported.
Reuters, Jerusalem Post Staff
Source: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-725163
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