“We condemn today the decision of the Israeli authorities, contrary to the law, to deport Mr. Salah Hammouri to France,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Franco-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri, who was deported earlier today by Israeli authorities after being held without charge in Israeli prisons since March, arrived in France and declared that “the struggle continues” because he has “a huge responsibility towards his cause and his people”.
“I have changed the location, but the fight continues,” he said upon his arrival at Paris Roissy airport, as reported by an AFP reporter. “Today, I feel that I have a huge responsibility for my cause and for my people. We are not letting Palestine go. It is our right to resist,” he added.
“Today I am being brutally expelled from my country by this occupying power, which has been continuing this ethnic cleansing since 1948. I am convinced that this machine of destruction called Israel is only yielding to a plan of Palestinian resistance,” he said after thanking the crowd who supported him during his “months of imprisonment”.
“It’s not because the Israeli state kicks me out that we won’t go back,” he said emotionally.
The deportation of the 37-year-old lawyer was recently condemned by France, which considers it “contrary to the law”.
“We condemn today the decision of the Israeli authorities, contrary to the law, to deport Mr. Salah Hammouri to France,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“Since his latest arrest, France has been fully mobilized, up to the highest level, to ensure that his rights are respected, that he benefits from all possible remedies and that he can live a normal life in Jerusalem, where he was born, resides and wishes to live”, it is underlined.
“France has also taken many steps to the Israeli authorities to express in the clearest possible way its opposition to this deportation of a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, an occupied territory as defined by the Fourth Geneva Convention,” the statement added.
Salah Hammouri was “deported this morning to France following a decision by Interior Minister Agelet Shaked to strip him of his permanent resident status,” the Israeli Interior Ministry said in a statement early this morning.
Hamouri, 37, was sentenced in March to three months of administrative detention, a controversial measure that allows Israel to jail suspects without formal charges. Hammouri, who is suspected by Israel of having links — which he denies — to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an organization designated as terrorist by the Jewish state and the European Union, was briefed in late November that in December he would be deported to France.
Salah Hamouri’s deportation is a “test” for residents of East Jerusalem, Leah Tsemel’s lawyer said recently, raising fears that a future Israeli government will further revoke residency permits from Palestinians born in the city, which they consider holy. the believers of three religions.
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Salah Hamouri – December 18, 2022Salah Hamouri, Franco-Palestinian, is expelled from Palestine by the Israeli authorities.
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