Right-wing representatives in the Israeli Knesset presented an amendment to the Israeli Citizenship Law requiring the deportation and deportation of every Arab citizen who holds Israeli identity or citizenship and has been convicted of charges described as terrorist.
Israeli Army Radio reported that if this amendment is approved, hundreds of Palestinian Arab citizens living within the Green Line and occupied Jerusalem will be deported to the Palestinian Authority areas in the West Bank.
Director of Tel Aviv Tribune’s office in Palestine, Walid Al-Omari, said that this law came against the backdrop of the release of the two prisoners, Maher Younis and his cousin Karim Younis, from the Wadi Ara area and others, after spending more than 40 years in occupation prisons and being convicted of operations that caused the killing of Israelis.
He added that these votes and amendments to the laws came within the framework of an attempt to escalate Israeli retaliatory measures against all Palestinians in the Green Line, the West Bank and Jerusalem, after the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip.
The legal amendment was presented by right-wing representatives last week, including Amit Halevy, a member of the Knesset from the Likud Party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a member of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Knesset, who was quoted by the radio as saying, “It is inconceivable that someone who conspired against Israel and its security would hold its nationality and reside there.” “The new law, if approved, will allow the Minister of the Interior to confiscate the right to citizenship and expel every person convicted of terrorism, whether he is currently in prison or whether he has been released and completed his sentence.”
