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December 20, 2022

U.N., France and Rights Groups Condemn Israel's Deportation of Palestinian Activist
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Israel has deported French-Palestinian activist and lawyer Salah Hamouri
to France in a move condemned by human rights groups and the French
Foreign Ministry. Before his deportation on Sunday, Hamouri had been
held without charges under Israel's so-called administrative detention
law since his arrest in March. Hamouri is a longtime resident of East
Jerusalem, which Israel has occupied since 1967. U.N. human rights
spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said in a statement, "Deporting a protected
person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva
Convention, constituting a war crime."


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