Israel expelled, on Sunday, the Franco-Palestinian lawyer detained without formal accusation in Israeli prisons since March. Salah Hamouri was greeted by his wife and by several dozen supporters.
by Madjid Zerrouky
“I did not wish this moment.” Extensive and physically marked by ten months’ imprisonment, the Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, detained without formal accusation in Israeli prisons since March, arrived in Roissy, Sunday December 18 at the end of the morning. A few hours earlier, he had been extracted from his cell and expelled to France on the orders of the Minister of the Interior, Ayelet Shaked. Born in East Jerusalem, annexed and occupied by the Hebrew State, Salah Hamouri does not have Israeli nationality, but a residence permit, which the Israeli authorities have revoked.
This measure has been described as a serious human rights violation by Amnesty International. “It is a deportation. Forced expulsions and forced detention without charges, the separation of families participate in the crime of apartheid that we denounce. There is a desire for hegemony on East Jerusalem. We expel people who do not Do not allegiance to Israel when in international law, an occupied population does not have to make allegiance to a occupying population, “said Jean-Claude Samouiller, the president of Amnesty International France.
“I was extracted against my will from my place of detention and sent into exile”, denounces the lawyer. “I find my family, my loved ones. But it’s hard to be torn from my homeland. Through my person, it is an ethnic cleaning process in question. The Israeli State uses all means for that there are the least Palestinians on the land he occupies. “
” of exile detention “
The expulsion of Salah Hamouri is a “test” for the inhabitants of East Jerusalem, had recently pleaded his lawyer, Leah Tsemel, saying fearing that the future Israeli government will multiply the resident revenue of Palestinians born in the holy city.
“I have been their target for over twenty years. They wanted to deport me to France since 2005. I have always refused. They have forced me to leave. It is to make an example to show To young generations what awaits those who want to resist them, “adds the lawyer.
Salah Hamouri had been placed in March in administrative detention, a controversial measure allowing Israel to incarcerate suspects without formal accusation. The one who had already been detained between 2005 and 2011 for having, according to Israeli justice, participated in a conspiracy aimed at assassinating an Israeli religious and political leader, had learned at the end of November that he was going to be expelled in December to France. Even if no concrete element appeared in the accusation file, the young man then had, as many Palestinians do, agreed to plead guilty against a reduction in sentence.
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