Israel deports West Bank prisoner to Gaza: Palestinians

[oberliner]

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel deported a Palestinian prisoner to the Gaza Strip instead of releasing him to his West Bank home, the man and Palestinian officials said, charging Israel with using controversial new military orders.

The prisoner, Ahmad Sabah, 40, was refusing to leave the Palestinian side of the main crossing between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

"It is inhumane what they are doing. He has no connection to Gaza, no relatives there, nothing," said Issa Qaraqi, the minister of prisoner affairs in the government of the Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

Qaraqi claimed Israel was implementing a new set of military orders that critics fear could lead to mass deportations from the occupied West Bank.

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[Igel]

1. This is a mystery.

"Family members said Sabah was born in Jordan and since returning to the West Bank had lived in the town of Tulkarem with his wife and family. However, his ID document was issed in Gaza."

I don't know what to make of "returning," either. Whence?

Of course, there's always "right of return" snarkiness, but let's leave that aside.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. Are you heartened by this victory for Israel, Oberliner?

[oberliner]

3. How is this a victory for Israel?

That is a shocking and disturbing statement.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

5. Wasn't it you who provided this lovely quote? "There is no truth in the publications

that Israel intends to deport Gazans residing in the West Bank," Brigadier-General Eitan Dangot, the coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories, told top Fatah official Hussein a-Sheikh during a phone conversation.

A-Sheikh told Haaretz that Dangot requested he pass the message on to Abbas, saying that "he explained that the order has been in place since 1969 and promised that not a single person will be deported to Gaza."

I guess I envision you and your fellow zionists fist bumping when you read and post this news.

[oberliner]

6. "I guess I envision you and your fellow zionists fist bumping when you read and post this news"

You live in a very strange and bizarre alternate reality if you actually believe a statement like that one.

I am absolutely completely floored.

[Tripmann]

4. From one prison to another so...