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Occupied Jerusalem- For about two and a half years, Al-Maqdisi Murad Al-Abbasi (44 years old) has been living away from his town of Silwan and his family, after the occupation permanently deported him from the holy Palestinian city in June 2022 under the pretext of the existence of a “secret file”, joining dozens of those who were permanently or temporarily deported from it, and who Since October 7, 2023, their number has reached 120 citizens, according to the governorate’s census. The holy Palestinian city.
“I lost my life. I always say that eating and drinking compensate, but family does not. I was deprived of my family and my six children. They grew up far from me. I could not share with them their joys and successes, or even be near them when they were sick.” Al-Abbasi describes to Al-Jazeera Net the price of the distancing that he has paid and is still paying.
He added that his daughter got married in Jerusalem and he was not able to attend the “juha” ceremony, which is the ceremony of submitting her proposal and engagement, and he was only able to wait for her at the door of the wedding hall that was held outside Jerusalem.
Justifications for deportation
Like Al-Abbasi, there is the former Minister of Jerusalem, Khaled Abu Arafa, and the representatives of the Legislative Council, Muhammad Abu Tair, Ahmed Atun, and Muhammad Totah, who were permanently deported by the occupation from Jerusalem to The bank After they were elected as representatives of the Change and Reform Bloc of the Hamas movement and the latter won the 2006 elections.
In addition to them, Jerusalemite prisoners were deported to Gaza Or outside Palestine after they were liberated in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal in 2011. In addition to the Jerusalemite lawyer and activist Salah Hammouri, who was permanently deported from Jerusalem to France in December 2022.
During last October, the occupation temporarily deported 7 Jerusalemites from Jerusalem for varying periods – according to the Holy City Governorate’s census – including liberated prisoners. The occupation granted their liberation by deporting them from Jerusalem for several days, to prevent them from being received or celebrated in the city, and to disturb their families, as well as It happened with one-eyed Nasrallah (Silwan), Mahmoud Abu Sobeih (Al-Ram), and Walid Alyan (Issawiya).
The deportation decision is issued by the office of the Israeli Minister of Security or the Minister of Interior or their representative, with a direct recommendation from political security bodies such as the Israeli General Security and Internal Intelligence Service known as “Shin Bet”, and it is temporary or permanent, and is accompanied by the withdrawal of the permanent residence card “Jerusalem ID”. It is often justified under the pretext of “threatening or disturbing public security.”
In addition to the pretext of threatening security, the occupation justifies the deportation decision due to the deportee’s lack of loyalty to Israel, or his expression of his opinion opposing the occupation (which falls under the heading of incitement to terrorism), or his affiliation to Palestinian resistance organizations, or within the policy of collective punishment. Many times, the occupation refrains from revealing the charge, and merely describes it as a secret file, as happens with administrative detention.
The main goal of deportation is to empty East Jerusalem of its Palestinian population and give the Israeli demographic advantage there, in addition to its direct effects on the deportee himself by weakening his social ties, separating him from his environment, and exposing him to psychological pressure and economic burden after losing his job or declining his income.
A citizen becomes a resident
Lawyer and expert in international law, Moin Odeh, told Al Jazeera Net that Israel, after its occupation of East Jerusalem, granted its residents a strange status of its kind, which is “permanent residency,” which is easy to lose and lose, adding that the Jerusalemite citizen lives in a constant state of running to prove his residence in the city in which he and his grandparents were born.
Odeh stressed that the restrictions imposed on Al-Maqdisi regarding his permanent residency document are considered a type of undeclared deportation, as he loses his residency once he lives for a certain period outside Jerusalem or obtains another nationality.
Regarding the view of international law, the lawyer says that this type of deportation is rejected and forbidden, as the Fourth Geneva Convention stipulates the prohibition of individual or collective deportation of protected persons, as the law views East Jerusalem as an occupied area whose residents are protected, and prohibits the occupation from expelling them or deporting them from their place of residence.
Odeh confirms that Israel sees itself as the controlling force on the land east of Jerusalem, and does not give value to international law, as happened during the expulsion of representatives of the Legislative Council, when the court said at the time that Israeli law is in effect if it conflicts with international law.
He concludes with amazement, “Israel was the one who came to the Jerusalemites and occupied their city and annexed it within its borders. The Jerusalemites were sitting in their homes, and today it is pushing them away from it.”
