Interior Minister Ayelet Sheikhdo delivers a statement to the press during the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 19, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen/File.
i24 News – France on Sunday condemned Israel’s expulsion of Sarah Hamri, a French-Palestinian lawyer accused of breaking security in Israel.
Earlier on Sunday, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked announced that French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri had been expelled from Israel after being revoked almost two weeks ago for “involvement in terrorist activities.” announced. His Hamouri, a French citizen and never held Israeli citizenship, was exiled to France and welcomed by his wife Elsa, politicians and supporters.
“We condemn the Israeli authorities today for illegally deporting Salah Hamri to France,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said Paris had “made an effort at the highest level of the state to ensure that Salah Hamri’s rights were respected and that he could benefit from all possible assistance and live a normal life in Jerusalem, where he was born. was fully mobilized, including , live and want to live. “
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“France has also taken several steps to communicate its opposition to the Israeli authorities in the most explicit way to the expulsion of Palestinian residents from the occupied territory of East Jerusalem under the 4th Geneva Convention,” it added.
Hamri’s supporters said deportation from his hometown was illegal. But he “isn’t considered a sympathetic person,” said Owen Alterman. i24 news Senior diplomatic correspondent.
“Maybe the French government needs or wants to push Mr. Hamri’s claims. Even if over time this episode is likely to be overwhelmed by other news and other issues of bilateral relations.