, 37, had his Jerusalem residency revoked in October 2021 on the grounds of a “breach of allegiance” to the Israeli state, based on secret evidence. Israel alleges he is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel’s western allies.
in the war of 1967. The 300,000 Palestinians living there are granted revocable Israeli residency permits, and very few have full Israeli citizenship.since 7 March, and went on hunger strike for three weeks in September. This week, Israel’s supreme court rejected an appeal against the order stripping him of his residency, and on Wednesday the outgoing interior minister, Ayelet Shaked, announced that the state planned to deport him to France.
Hamouri has been imprisoned by Israel on several previous occasions, including serving a seven-year sentence between 2005 and 2011 for his alleged role in a plot to kill a chief rabbi. His wife, Elsa Lefort, a French national, was deported after arriving at Tel Aviv’s airport in 2016 and given a 10-year entry ban. She and the couple’s two young children live in France and have not been allowed to visit or even speak by phone to Hamouri since he was detained in March.
It isn't until the sixth paragraph when we learn that the 'human rights lawyer' was convicted for plotting to assassinate a prominent rabbi and membership in the PFLP terror group.