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<font size=4><b>Palestinians deported to Gaza <br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Thursday, April 22, 2010<br>
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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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
Israelis sent him to Gaza because he had a Palestinian ID issued
there.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
"It is my right to return to my wife and family," he said.
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<b>'Inhumane policy'<br><br>
</b>The Israeli move drew condemnation from Palestinian political
leaders, who denounced Sabah's deportation as
"inhumane".<br><br>
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.<br><br>
"He has no connection to Gaza, no relatives there,
nothing."<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Sabah's case follows that of Saber Albayari, who was deported to Gaza
after seeking medical treatment in an Israeli hospital on
Wednesday.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Some fear that the expulsions could be the first in a wave of
deportations of Palestinians from Israel and the West Bank.<br><br>
Up to 70,000 Palestinians could be at risk of deportation under the
military order, which has been roundly condemned by Arab
politicians.<br><br>
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."<br><br>
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.<br><br>
"It fits into a pattern of Israel's strategy to treat Gaza and the
West Bank as separate geopoliticial entities," she said. <br><br>
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