The United Nations has condemned Israel’s expulsion of French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Al-Hamouri after he had been jailed since March with no formal charges against him, describing the measure as a “war crime”.
A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jeremy Lawrence, commented that international humanitarian law prohibits the expulsion of protected persons from occupied territory and said that the expulsion of a protected person from occupied territory is ” a serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and constitutes a war crime”.
Early Sunday, Israeli occupation authorities deported Palestinian lawyer, Salah Al-Hamouri, from the occupied city of Jerusalem to France, of which he holds the nationality.
Al-Hamouri was taken to the airport under military guard, and the occupation authorities have been pursuing him for many years, arresting him for the last time last March and placing him in administrative detention on charges of belonging and activities in a cell affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which planned to assassinate the spiritual father of the religious movement Shas Orientali.
Al-Hamouri, 38, was released in 2011 and is a lawyer who specializes in defending the freedoms and rights of detainees.
The Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees condemned the “arbitrary” deportation decision against Hammouri and the withdrawal of his Jerusalem ID card under the pretext of violating allegiance to the State of Israel.
Hamas also condemned the deportation of the Jerusalemite lawyer from his hometown in France by the occupation authorities.
For its part, the French Foreign Ministry condemned the decision to expel Hammouri, deeming it illegal.
