The Gaza Strip, a tiny territory of 360 km², where nearly 2 million Palestinians are crowded together and more than two thirds of the buildings have been destroyed or damaged by 13 months of Israeli bombardments, has never lived up to its nickname so well. of “open-air prison”.
Defended by Israeli MP Almog Cohen, a member of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Force) party, the law authorizes the Minister of the Interior to expel members of the family of “terrorists if they knew in advance of plans for terrorist attacks but did not do everything in their power to prevent them from being carried out”.
The risk of a “dangerous escalation”
The Minister of the Interior will also have the power “to expel family members who express support for terrorism or publish statements praising or encouraging acts of terrorism or a terrorist organization”. Israeli citizens could be deported for between seven and fifteen years, and permanent or temporary residents for between 10 and 20 years.
This law adopted Thursday by Parliament and supported for years by the far right, aims, according to its promoters, to dissuade Arab citizens of Israel, living in Israel and annexed East Jerusalem, from carrying out anti-Israeli attacks.
Adalah, the legal center for the rights of Arab minorities in Israel, denounced a “dangerous escalation in Israeli legislative repression of Palestinian rights, under the guise of the fight against terrorism.”
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