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Monday, December 19, 2022
UN rights office: Israeli expulsion of Palestinian accused of terror a ‘war crime’
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Salah Hamouri arrives in Paris after he was deported from Israel, on December 18, 2022. (Daphné BENOIT / AFP)
Israel’s expulsion of a French-Palestinian human rights lawyer accused of terror offenses amounts to a “war crime,” the UN human rights office says.
Salah Hamouri, 37, arrived in France yesterday after having been held without charge in Israel under a controversial practice that allows suspects to be detained for renewable periods of up to six months.
“Deporting a protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, constituting a war crime,” UN human rights spokesman Jeremy Laurence says.
Israel has accused Hamouri of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and of being a security threat. Hamouri denies links to the PFLP.
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