The deportation of the released prisoner, Mounir Al-Rajabi, in implementation of the Israeli racist laws

Attorney Ali Abu Hilal *

The unprecedented attack of the Israeli occupation on the male and female prisoners has taken serious dimensions affecting their rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to them by all conventions and covenants, the rules of international international humanitarian law, and the principles of the International Bill of Human Rights. From the penalties of solitary confinement, psychological and physical torture, and other penalties inside prison that affect their basic rights and the rights of their families. Rather, penalties continue to be imposed on them after their liberation from prison after the expiration of their actual prison sentence, in violation of all human laws, which impose one penalty on Persons when they do an act punishable by these laws.
However, the occupation’s unjust Sharia and laws from start to finish, which distinguishes the occupation from other illegal regimes and entities, does not adhere to the principles and standards of human laws and laws, but rather embodies gross violations of the most basic human rights and principles, and this is what makes it pursue prisoners throughout their lives and impose more penalties on them and their families. As long as the occupation remains, and as long as the prisoners and their families survive.
It is the law of aggression and injustice practiced by the occupation against the Palestinian people and their legitimate national rights, especially their right to independence and self-determination, which guarantees them to live freely and with dignity in and from a land, let alone if it comes to the rights of prisoners and detainees.
And based on the occupation’s policy of practicing aggression, injustice and hatred against the prisoners, the occupation authorities deported the Jerusalemite prisoner Munir al-Rajabi (50 years) last week, after he spent 20 years in the occupation detention centers, to the city of Hebron, and did not enable him to return to his place of residence in the city of Haifa inside the 48 territories, just a week before his release date.
The decision to deport the freedman Al-Rajbi warns of the escalating dangers to the fate of hundreds of Jerusalemite prisoners and Palestinian prisoners from within the 1948 lands, especially with the racist laws approved by the current occupation government, which are the most extreme of all, as it began to convert all the crimes and systematic violations that it originally implemented into bills. And laws, including the law (withdrawing residency and nationality) from prisoners and liberated prisoners, and it is mentioned that the occupation forces arrested Al-Rajabi in 2003, and issued a decision to withdraw his Jerusalem identity in 2019, after he obtained it under the reunification of his family. Al-Rajabi called, from the place of his deportation in Hebron, to "rescue the prisoners from the laws of the occupation government and the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, which seeks to displace the Palestinians from the 48 lands, expel the Jerusalemites from their land, and prevent them from moving, as well as seeking to enact a law that requires the execution of prisoners."
The Israeli General Assembly, the Knesset, had finally approved, on February 15, in the second and third readings, a bill to withdraw citizenship or residency, and to deport every Palestinian prisoner who receives financial aid from the Palestinian National Authority, with the support of 95 Knesset members and the opposition of 9 members. . The law allows the "Minister of the Interior" in the occupation government to revoke citizenship or residency from a person who was "convicted of a terrorist crime," as they described it, and who received financial allocations from the National Authority, and deport him to the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.
There is no doubt that the extreme right-wing occupation government, led by Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir, is continuing to enact and legislate racist laws against male and female prisoners, believing that these unjust and unjust laws, in violation of international humanitarian law, and the principles of the legal bill of human rights, may achieve the goals of the occupation in the judiciary. On the resistance of the Palestinian people to the occupation, and it may undermine the steadfastness of the male and female prisoners and all other detainees in the prisons of the occupation, as if the aggressive policy of the occupation, and its gross violations of the rights of our people and the rights of male and female prisoners, require new laws and legislations that allow it to commit crimes against our people.
For decades, the occupation has continued, since its usurpation and occupation of the Palestinian land, its crimes against our people and against the prisoners, including the commission of murders, executions, assassinations, massacres of civilians, arrest, torture, confiscation of land and settlement, destruction and demolition of homes, buildings and civilian objects, and the commission of Crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing, desecration of Islamic and Christian sanctities, and other crimes of war and aggression.
And if the occupation committed these crimes with a legal license and with legislation it enacted for itself, from its institutions, and its legislative, judicial and executive bodies, then the occupation and its government would not gain any legal legitimacy for these crimes.
Rather, these racist and illegal legislations expose the racist and aggressive nature of the occupying government, which is hostile to the most basic human rights, in front of world public opinion, and before the international community, United Nations bodies, and all international, human rights and humanitarian organizations, and exposes the falsity of its claims, which it allows and promotes, that it is an entity Democratic and respects human rights. Despite the dangers of these racist laws and legislations, which violate the rights of our people, especially the male and female prisoners, and affect their freedoms and basic rights guaranteed to them by international humanitarian law and the principles of human rights, they will not affect their steadfastness and resistance to the occupation and its aggressive and racist policy.
* Lawyer and university lecturer in international law.