Rights organization: Israel will send a Palestinian lawyer to France

• A Palestinian-French human rights attorney whose Jerusalem residence was revoked by Israel is in danger of being deported, according to an Israeli organisation.
• It follows the Supreme Court of Israel’s denial of an appeal against the decision to terminate his residency due to “breach of allegiance.”
• Israel claims that Mr. Hammouri is a member of a terrorist organisation, which he denies.

A Palestinian-French human rights attorney whose Jerusalem residence was revoked by Israel is in danger of being deported, according to an Israeli organisation.

Salah Hammouri’s indefinite incarceration would not be renewed on Friday, according to HaMoked, which claimed to have received word of this.

It follows the Supreme Court of Israel’s denial of an appeal against the decision to terminate his residency due to “breach of allegiance.”

Israel claims that Mr. Hammouri is a member of a terrorist organisation, which he denies.

According to the Associated Press, interior minister Ayelet Shaked stated, “We must fight terrorism with all the weapons at our disposal.” Terrorists like Hamouri acquiring status in Israel is unacceptable.

“Salah Hammouri has already spent nine months in administrative detention without indictment or trial this year in reprisal for his tireless activism for an end to Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians,” said Heba Morayef, director of Amnesty International’s Middle East division.

These most recent intentions “are not merely an egregious attempt to obstruct Salah’s human rights work, but also an illustration of the terrifying long-term policy aim of the Israeli authorities to reduce the number of Palestinians in East Jerusalem.”

Suspects may be kept in administrative detention for intervals of six months, with an unlimited number of extensions.

Mr. Hammouri, 37, has lived in Jerusalem all of his life and holds French citizenship as a result of his mother.

He works for Addameer, a Palestinian legal aid and prisoners’ rights organisation that, along with five other Palestinian civil society organisations, was labelled a terrorist organisation by the Israeli military in October 2021. The military said they were associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an Israeli-designated terrorist organisation that is a militant Palestinian group.

Following his arrest in March, Mr. Hammouri was placed under administrative detention, which is a three-month period of incarceration without accusation or trial, by the Israeli military commander in the occupied West Bank. The administrative detention order was scheduled to expire on Sunday and had since been renewed thrice.

Mr. Hammouri submitted a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron pleading for assistance after spending four months in custody. He was then moved to a maximum security prison in central Israel after being designated as “a prisoner of high risk.”

He started a hunger strike in late September to express his displeasure with his administrative imprisonment. After 19 days, during which time he supposedly spent alone in a cell, he ended it.

Independent UN experts recently stated that Mr. Hammouri had experienced “not simply unlawful” but also “sadistic” detention procedures.

They also stated that based on “secret evidence,” his right to permanent residence in Jerusalem had been withdrawn in October 2021. At the time, Ms. Shaked said that his behaviour had been a “breach of allegiance to the State of Israel.”

The experts warned that forcibly removing protected individuals from the occupied territory and compelling them to swear allegiance to the occupying power would be serious violations of international humanitarian law and might even constitute a war crime.

A previous Israeli court found Mr. Hammouri guilty of taking part in a plot to assassinate the late Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and he served seven years in prison as a result. He was freed as a result of a 2011 prisoner exchange with Hamas.

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