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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">Israel approves 'deportation law' targeting families of Palestinians behind resistance operations</h1><p class="gmail-">Relatives can also be deported for 'expressing support' for the operations or 'not taking necessary measures to prevent them'</p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span>NOV 7, 2024 - </span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-approves-deportation-law-targeting-families-of-palestinians-behind-resistance-operations">https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-approves-deportation-law-targeting-families-of-palestinians-behind-resistance-operations</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/b6d58a84-9d21-11ef-8b78-00163e02c055.jpeg" alt="" width="441" height="278" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span>(Photo Credit: Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)</span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span><p>The Israeli Knesset on 6 November voted 61-41 to give <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/7/israeli-parliament-passes-law-to-deport-relatives-of-terrorists">final approval</a> to a law that allows authorities to deport family members of Palestinians who carry out <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/27117">armed operations</a> against Israelis to the Gaza Strip and "other locations."</p><p>The
 controversial law, proposed by Likud lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky, states 
that relatives living in occupied East Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied 
territories may be deported by the Interior Minister to Gaza "or another
 destination determined by the circumstances" if they “knew in advance 
of the terrorist's plan and did not take necessary measures to prevent 
it.”</p><p>Parents, siblings, children, and spouses of the so-called 
“terrorists” would be targeted by the law. They can also be deported on 
the basis of expressing "support or sympathy" for the act of "terrorism"
 committed or for publishing  “praise, admiration, or encouragement.”</p><p>“Israeli
 citizens who meet the criteria will be deported for at least seven 
years and up to 15 years. Non-citizen deportees will face a minimum of 
10 years and up to 20 years. Additionally, the police will have the 
authority to enforce deportations, ‘including the power to enter any 
premises, remove individuals, and use reasonable force,'" reports 
Israeli daily <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-07/ty-article/.premium/knesset-passes-law-to-deport-relatives-of-terrorist-for-up-to-20-years/00000193-057f-d599-a7f7-0f7f043d0000"><i>Haaretz</i></a>.</p><p>The
 approved law includes a provision that allows children convicted of 
capital offenses considered as “terrorism” to be sentenced to prison 
from the age of 12.</p><p>Palestinian resistance operations in Israeli 
cities have significantly surged since the start of the genocide in Gaza
 last year. In early October, seven Israelis were killed and 16 others 
injured during a shooting operation in the heart of Tel Aviv.</p><p>The 
deportation law comes on the heels of a draft law approved by the 
Knesset that gives the education ministry permission to order the 
prevention of the transfer of budgets to schools on the grounds that a 
"terrorist act" could be taking place.</p><p>This law specifically 
targets Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem, claiming they 
"incite minors against the state of Israel".</p><p>Last month, the Knesset <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/28/israel-parliament-approves-bill-to-ban-unrwa">passed</a><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">
 two laws banning the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from 
operating inside Israel, Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and occupied east
 Jerusalem.</span></p></span></div></div></div></div>

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