France mobilizes for Franco-Palestinian activist Salah Hamouri threatened with expulsion from Jerusalem
Franco-Palestinian Salah Hamouri, here during his release on December 19, 2011 in Dahyat, near Ramallah.
AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP
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Salah Hamouri may no longer be able to live in Jerusalem after Israeli authorities revoked his status as a permanent resident of the holy city.
According to his lawyer, he is the victim of an arbitrary administrative decision by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior.
Accused of terrorism by the Hebrew state, Salah Hamouri had already been imprisoned between 2005 and 2011 in Israel.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Sami Boukhelifa
Born to a French mother and a Palestinian father, Salah Hamouri, is a human rights activist and lawyer.
In the 2000s, he was sentenced by Israel to seven years in prison for attempted assassination and belonging to a terrorist organization.
Charges that he has always denied.
According to his lawyer Mahoumd Hassan, years after this case,
Salah Hamouri
is like all Palestinians in Jerusalem: harassed by the Israeli authorities.
“
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, Israel has methodically attempted to empty Jerusalem of its Palestinian population,
” he said.
They want to drive the Palestinians from their lands, and from their homes.
And to achieve this, Israel revokes the residency status of Palestinians in Jerusalem.
"
⚠️ Call to Action ⚠️ No to the revocation of the Jerusalem residency status of #SalahHamouri!
Stop the relentlessness!
Call @EmmanuelMacron!
You will find a typical message on the @ AFPSOfficiel website ⤵️ https://t.co/0gyHgyWMZj
- Freedom for Salah (@LiberezSalah) October 21, 2021
Salah Hamouri, one more victim
According to master Mahmoud Hassan, of the 300,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem, at least 25,000 have lost their residence permit without valid reason.
Salah Hamouri is yet another victim, regrets his lawyer: “
The occupation authorities have enough courts.
So, if they blame Salah for something, let them go to court.
They claim to have evidence against him, but they claim that the evidence is secret.
I think if they had anything against him, he would already be in the dock.
"
The French Foreign Ministry claims to be "
fully mobilized
" so that Salah Hamouri is not expelled by the Israelis.
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