First deportation from West Bank to Gaza under new apartheid-style IDF pass law
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel deported a Palestinian prisoner to the Gaza Strip instead of releasing him to his West Bank home, the man and Palestinian officials said, charging Israel with using controversial new military orders.
The prisoner, Ahmad Sabah, 40, was refusing to leave the Palestinian side of the main crossing between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
“It is inhumane what they are doing. He has no connection to Gaza, no relatives there, nothing,” said Issa Qaraqi, the minister of prisoner affairs in the government of the Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
Qaraqi claimed Israel was implementing a new set of military orders that critics fear could lead to mass deportations from the occupied West Bank. more
On Wednesday there were protests in Gaza against the IDF order. The rally was notable in that it brought together Hamas and Fatah for the first time since 2007.
Representatives of rival Hamas and Fatah movements attended the rally near Erez terminal which connects the Gaza Strip and Israel and is only open to foreigners, patients and people with special arrangements.
It’s now Two Down…..
Palestinians deported to Gaza
Palestinians are outraged by the Israeli military order that facilitates the deportations [AFP] Two Palestinians have been deported to the Gaza Strip from Israel, raising fears that more expulsions could follow under a controversial new Israeli military order.
After nine years in Israeli jail, Ahmad Sabah, a 40-year- old Palestinian, was sent to Gaza, instead of being released to the West Bank where his family was waiting for him.
Israelis sent him to Gaza because he had a Palestinian ID issued there.
His family said that Sabah, who was arrested in 2001 for “security offences” against Israel, has no connection to Gaza and he has refused to leave the border crossing in protest at his treatment.
“It is my right to return to my wife and family,” he said.
‘Inhumane policy’
The Israeli move drew condemnation from Palestinian political leaders, who denounced Sabah’s deportation as “inhumane”.
Issa Qaraqi, the minister of prisoner affairs in the government of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said that Sabah should have been released to the West Bank.
“He has no connection to Gaza, no relatives there, nothing.”
He said that the deportation was an example of Israel invoking the controversial new military orders that allow “illegal” residents of the West Bank to be expelled.
But Israeli authorities denied the orders were behind the decision. “The individual’s release to the Gaza Strip was done in accordance with the Prison Service’s decision and in light of the location of his place of residence, and was not due to a repatriation order issued by any military commander,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
Sabah’s case follows that of Saber Albayari, who was deported to Gaza after seeking medical treatment in an Israeli hospital on Wednesday.
Albayari had been living in Israel for the past 15 years, but was returned to Gaza when Israeli authorities discovered that he had been born there.
Some fear that the expulsions could be the first in a wave of deportations of Palestinians from Israel and the West Bank.
Up to 70,000 Palestinians could be at risk of deportation under the military order, which has been roundly condemned by Arab politicians.
Last week President Abbas vowed to confront the order. “Israel has no right to deport any Palestinian, and the Palestinian Authority will not allow it and will confront it with various means.”
Al Jazeera’s Jackie Rowland, reporting from Jerusalem, said that the individual stories put a human face on what is a deliberate strategy by Israel to treat the West Bank and Gaza differently.
“It fits into a pattern of Israel’s strategy to treat Gaza and the West Bank as separate geopoliticial entities,” she said.
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Leslie Holt said,
April 23, 2010 at 10:19
There is an secret hidden agenda behind all this, where the western world is secretly being manipulated – that their governance behind the scenes is the snake head that really rules and configures our everyday reality, a hidden screen behind which they hide to do their deadly deceptions on an otherwise unknowing humanity. Whilst at the same time implementing the wholesale poisoning of their own kind globally. The key organisations are the petrochemical and pharmaceutical cartels, the biggest world banks and the richest invisible wealthiest families.
Those same rich and infamous families pull the strings to what is happening in Palestine, and whom are evoking such treachery in Israel not dissimilar to how the Vatican were instrumental in employing the Arab Peoples to do their ‘dirty work’ in killing off Christians and Jews by inventing Islam and fabricating a religious organisation to control the Arab, African and Asian peoples.
There is much skulduggery behind the scenes that the Western-backed Elite whom know these secrets from the early ancestors, global and cosmic secrets that have long been hidden from mankind and which have furnished these rich families keeping them at the fountain head of technological and religious matters that have held mankind in slavery, in servitude often beaten into submissiveness like we see being perpetrated today in Africa and Palestine.
It is this universal power they hold that they can deceive mankind and trigger unrest globally.
The Jewish people and the Arab people along with those other than the Elite wealthy families are similarly systematically lied to and called upon to reinforce the Elites position by killing and creating division. And the majority of common people fall for their tricks and slight of hand. That is the situation. And why it is important for the ordinary people globally, to get together and put aside their religious beliefs for these are the chains of religious control the Elite use upon you to shackle and control you. Get together and stop being the Elite; their slaves. Stop killing for them. This means every intelligent Arab, Jew and Goyim (everyone else) work to joining hand and heart to stamp out the Elite their agenda that has imprisoned them in the Elite’s reality they constructed for you and have stage managed for thousands of years. It is really time to awaken from the slumber you and your ancestors were put under. Rise and take account for your selves.
Leslie
Ld Elon said,
April 23, 2010 at 15:14
If they dont have to look at you, they dont have to remember how they are, and, how much resentment they have towards your rights.
Hussein said,
April 23, 2010 at 15:56
Dear Leslie,
I have a comment about this statement you put “…the Vatican were instrumental in employing the Arab Peoples to do their ‘dirty work’ in killing off Christians and Jews by inventing Islam and fabricating a religious organisation to control the Arab, African and Asian peoples.”
Actually there is no hand of Vatican in creating Islam if you do read the history, yes I am with the fact that there was a dirty dark hand which touched the principles of Islam, and there was a coup against the real message, it was , in other words, hijacked by the same people who hijacked the message of Moses and Jesus before Islam. But those messages were by and in themselves not fabricated by those evil rich ones you talked about and called the elites. The elites just had interfered with the religions not fabricate them.
Satan has his own manipulative means.
Peace and be safe.