The Israeli authorities had confirmed in early December the revocation of its resident status, paving the way for an imminent expulsion, despite a new audience scheduled for January 1, 2023.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
Israel expelled, Sunday, December 18, the Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, who was detained without formal accusation in Israeli prisons since March, announced the Israeli Interior Ministry. Mr. Hamouri’s family and support campaign expected an expulsion on Sunday morning on the flight between Tel Aviv and Paris of the Israeli airline El al.
37 years old, Hamouri had been sentenced in March to three months of administrative detention, a controversial measure allowing Israel to incarcerate suspects without formal accusation. Suspected by Israel of links with the Popular Liberation Front of Palestine (FPLP), an organization deemed terrorist by the Hebrew State and the European Union, Mr. Hamouri, who denies such links, had learned at the end of November that he was going to be expelled in December to France.
But his expulsion had been postponed following audiences before the military justice, his lawyers calling into question his order of expulsion and also the revocation of his status as resident of East Jerusalem. Born in this part of the Holy City, annexed and occupied by the Hebrew State, Salah Hamouri does not have Israeli nationality but a residence permit, which the Israeli authorities have revoked, what he disputes.
Now, in early December, the Israeli authorities confirmed the revocation of its status, thus paving the way for an imminent expulsion, despite a new audience provided for on 1 January 2023.
“A formidable accomplishment”
Since Friday evening, the indications of an expulsion on Sunday morning had multiplied, the Israeli Arab deputy Aïda Touma-Slimane having written on Saturday evening to the Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, to prevent expulsion, However decreed by the Minister of the Interior, Ayelet Shaked.
The expulsion of Mr. Hamouri intervenes when approaching a change of administration in Israel, with a transfer of power expected in the coming days between the heterogeneous coalition of the centrist Yaïr Lapid and a government led by Benyamin Netanyahu And its allies of ultra -backodox and extreme right parties. “It is a great accomplishment to have been able to provoke, just before the end of my mandate, its expulsion,” commented M me shaked.
on Sunday