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<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b><i>Two articles follow<br><br>
</i></font><font size=4>Israel arrests Hamas MP <br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Wednesday, June 30, 2010 <br>
21:04 Mecca time, 18:04 GMT <br>
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/2010630165417403499.html<br>
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</a>Israeli police have arrested a Hamas MP for refusing to comply with
an order expelling him from Jerusalem, police said.<br><br>
Mohammed Abu Teir was one of four senior Hamas officials that Israel has
been trying to expel in recent weeks, sparking concern among Arabs in the
city about their rights as residents.<br><br>
"We arrested him; he has broken the law and stayed within the
borders of the state of Israel," Shmulik Ben-Ruby, the Israeli
police spokesman for Jerusalem, said on Wednesday.<br><br>
"He has been detained and taken for questioning."<br><br>
Israel had sought to strip Abu Teir, Khaled Abu Arafeh, a former minister
for Jerusalem affairs, and Ahmad Atoun and Mohammed Totah, both MPs, of
their Israeli-issued identity cards.<br><br>
The men have appealed the decision and Abu Teir was due to appear in
court on Thursday.<br><br>
<b>IDs revoked<br><br>
</b>Atoun said he was driving with Abu Teir in the Sur Baher
neighbourhood, where the latter lives, when they were pulled over by
police asking to see their IDs.<br><br>
"We told them we do not have IDs. They arrested Muhammad Abu-Teir
and told me I have two days remaining to stay in Jerusalem," he told
the Reuters news agency.<br><br>
Many Palestinians fear their expulsion could set a precedent for the
removal of more of the nearly 270,000 Palestinians living in east
Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 in a move not recognised
internationally.<br><br>
Palestinians living in east Jerusalem hold Israeli-issued IDs that allow
them to travel freely in Israel and the West Bank, collect government
benefits and vote in local but not national elections.<br><br>
The Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future
state, while Israel views the entire city as its "eternal,
indivisible" capital.<br><br>
Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the
Palestinian territories, cited the four men's case in a statement on
Tuesday saying that he saw it as part of "a larger, extremely
worrying pattern of Israeli efforts to drive Palestinians out of East
Jerusalem - all of which are illegal under international
law".<br><br>
Israel has said they are being expelled because they are members of
Hamas, which Israel, the United States and the European Union consider a
"terrorist" organisation, although it won Palestinian
legislative elections in 2006.<br><br>
Abu Teir was among dozens of Hamas politicians from Jerusalem and the
West Bank that Israel rounded up after the polls. He was freed in May,
but was then told his Israeli-issued ID was being revoked. <br>
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</font><h1><b>Bedouin Families Face Further
Expulsions</b></h1>
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</b></h1><font size=3> Wednesday June 30, 2010
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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
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http://www.imemc.org/article/59032<br><br>
</a></font>The al-Quds Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights reported
that some 40 Bedouin families in the al-Farsiyya area, in the northern
plains of the Jordan Valley, received official notices from Israel
ordering them to leave their areas. <br><br>
The families have been living in the area for several decades having been
previously forced out of another area, due to Israel’s illegal policies
and the construction of settlements. <br><br>
The Center said that the orders did not give the families more than
24-hour notice; an issue that would make it practically impossible for
them to present the needed ownership documents or to appeal the decision.
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The issue is similar to that which happened in al-Hadidiyya area, near
the central West Bank district of Tubas ten days ago, with the Israeli
army handing orders to 13 families forcing them to leave. The 13 families
were the last of original 50 families that once lived in the area.
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The Center described the orders as an act of ethnic cleansing, as Israel
wants to replace them with Jewish settlers and to force them to live in
isolated areas, similar to the actions of the white National Party during
apartheid in South Africa. <br><br>
It also said that it is trying to appeal against the decision, and
appealed to other human rights and legal organizations to intervene
immediately in order to prevent the expulsion of the families. <br><br>
The center also called on the Palestinian Authority and its president,
Mahmoud Abbas, to act on the regional and international levels in order
to expose the illegal Israeli measures and to save the families.
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In a previous report, the center said that 21 residents living in Majdal
Bani Fadel village, 9 in Yitma near Nablus, 5 in Jinsafut near Qalqilia,
9 in Kafr Ed Deek, and two from Hares village near Salfit, received
similar orders this month as the army intends to demolish their homes,
hothouses and barns.<br><br>
The center is currently representing the families in an attempt to void
the illegal Israeli decisions that target the very existence of the
Palestinians in their homeland. <br><br>
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