(JNS) Israel Sunday deported a former Palestinian Arab security prisoner with French citizenship, after Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked ordered his Israeli residency revoked.
The convicted terrorist, Salah Hamouri, was a lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a group linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization. He was previously sentenced by an Israeli court to seven years in prison, as part of a plea bargain in exchange for admitting to plotting to murder the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Hamouri was released by Israel as part of the 2011 Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
Born to a French mother and a Palestinian father in Kafr Aqab, a neighborhood in northeastern Jerusalem, Hamouri retains French citizenship and his wife and children reside in France.
The deportation was implemented by the Interior Ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority and its Enforcement and Foreigners Administration.
In other security-related news, the Israel Defense Forces Sunday night arrested two Palestinian Arab men in Nablus on suspicion of carrying out a drive-by shooting attack on an Israeli vehicle near the Havat Gilad outpost, north of Ariel in Samaria, on Friday.
The IDF said it acted on Shin Bet intelligence agency information to arrest Nasser Naqib, 47, a resident of the Askar camp in Nablus.
Naqib served time as a security prisoner in the past and was a member of Fatah’s Tanzim terror militia, the IDF said. Naqib’s son Mohammad, 21, was also arrested on suspicion of taking part in Friday’s attack, which did not result in injuries but did cause bullet damage to the vehicle targeted in the shooting. Nasser Naqib is also suspected of trading in weapons, the IDF said.
“During the operation, a violent riot unfolded that included shots fired from the rioters at [Israeli] forces, who responded with riot dispersal means. When the forces exited [the area], large rocks were thrown at them and the forces responded with fire. A hit was identified,” the army stated.
