RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs yesterday strongly condemned the decision of Israeli military courts to deport Palestinian prisoners holding Arab and foreign passports from the Palestinian territories. 
The ministry said that the Israeli courts issued a decision to deport two Palestinian brothers, Omar and Talib Oudeh, from Jenin to Jordan, after they served their jail term despite the fact that they are holding Palestinian IDs.
It added that the Israeli courts also decided to deport Marwan Farraj from Bethlehem to Jordan. The ministry said that Farraj “refused to sign the expulsion decision and the prison administration is exercising huge psychological pressure against him to force him to sign the court decision.”
The ministry said Ibrahim Hamdiya, was separate
d from his wife and children, who live in Jenin, and was deported to the Gaza on the pretext that he had resided in the West Bank illegally.
The ministry said that the decisions are a “violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids Israel as an occupying power from altering the demographic composition of territories it has seized, either by expelling Palestinians or by settling Jews there.”
The ministry called on
international human rights organizations to “urgently intervene to put an end to this Israeli policy of deportation which is backed by a legal cover provided by the Israeli High Court of Justice in order to pass violations against Palestinian civilians”, warning that the “international community’s silence encourages Israel to deport more Palestinians”.
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The ministry said that the Israeli courts issued a decision to deport two Palestinian brothers, Omar and Talib Oudeh, from Jenin to Jordan, after they served their jail term despite the fact that they are holding Palestinian IDs.
It added that the Israeli courts also decided to deport Marwan Farraj from Bethlehem to Jordan. The ministry said that Farraj “refused to sign the expulsion decision and the prison administration is exercising huge psychological pressure against him to force him to sign the court decision.”
The ministry said Ibrahim Hamdiya, was separate
d from his wife and children, who live in Jenin, and was deported to the Gaza on the pretext that he had resided in the West Bank illegally.The ministry said that the decisions are a “violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids Israel as an occupying power from altering the demographic composition of territories it has seized, either by expelling Palestinians or by settling Jews there.”
The ministry called on
international human rights organizations to “urgently intervene to put an end to this Israeli policy of deportation which is backed by a legal cover provided by the Israeli High Court of Justice in order to pass violations against Palestinian civilians”, warning that the “international community’s silence encourages Israel to deport more Palestinians”.Source: Arab News...and Amazon.Com
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