Deportation and re-arrest of the prisoner Abdul Rahman Mahmoud after 17 years in captivity

Ramallah – Hurryyat | After the release of the prisoner Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Khalil Mahmoud, nicknamed “Abed Arefa”, who spent 17 years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, the occupation authorities prevented him from reaching his hometown of Issawiya, and deported him to the “city of Jericho” for ten days. On his way from prison to Jericho, he was detained and arrested again and transferred to the occupation police station in Jerusalem.

The occupation authorities were not satisfied with that. After releasing him the next day, the Israeli intelligence service summoned him several times and threatened to arrest him if he did not come to meet them, forcing him on 04/03/2019 to come to Ofer Prison, so he was arrested again and presented to the court the next day Which extended his detention for another three days.

Hurryyat condemns these blatant Israeli procedures and violations against our liberated prisoners and their families, and stresses that the occupation authorities are systematically using the policy of deportation, as a form of collective punishment that has been internationally and legally prohibited since 1967, based on the unjust emergency law and Israeli military orders, in violation of international covenants and treaties and United Nations resolutions. Which clearly opposed this policy, especially in the Geneva and Hague Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which calls for an international move to condemn and stop this policy.

Hurryyat believes that the crime of re-arresting Abdel Rahman after 7 days of the festive ceremony to receive him in Jericho by family and popular and national events falls within the framework of the narrowing policy targeting national characters in Jerusalem with the aim of silencing their voice against the occupation policy that works on a daily basis to Judaize the city, which has increased dramatically Big after the deal of the century and the transfer of the American embassy to it.