On Sunday, December 18, 2022, the Israeli occupation authorities deported the Palestinian prisoner, Salah al-Hamouri, to France after 9 months of administrative detention (without trial).
On March 7, 2022, Al-Hamouri was kidnapped from his house in Jerusalem, and held under administrative detention for 3 months, which ended on Monday morning.
Al-Hamouri works as a human rights defender and a field researcher at Addameer. He was arrested several times for more than nine years and was banned from entering the West Bank for two years.
Several years ago, the occupation authorities deported Al-Hamouri’s wife, who was then 7 months pregnant, to France, after detaining her for 3 days at the airport.
Last October, the Judicial Adviser and Minister of Justice of the Occupation approved the decision to revoke Al-Hamouri’s identity card and deny him residency in Jerusalem.
In November 2022, Front Line Defenders revealed the hacking of 6 devices of employees working in Palestinian human rights institutions, using spyware (Pegasus), including Al-Hamouri.
It is noteworthy that the prisoner, Salah Al-Hamouri, holds French citizenship, and he had moved between several Israeli prisons, the last of which was “Ofer” prison in the West Bank.
In April 2022, the French Foreign Ministry said that it hopes that Al-Hamouri will be released and able to lead an everyday life in Jerusalem, where he was born and raised, and that his wife and children will be able to go there to meet him.
