(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 1, 2020 Salah Hamouri, Franco-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher for ADDAMEER (Conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian non-governmental organisation that works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons, gives an interview with AFP at the NGO's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah. - Paris estimated on December 1, 2022, that the Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, detained without formal charge in Israel since last March and who must be expelled to France, should "be able to lead a normal life in Jerusalem". (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
International Desk: Salah Hammouri has been held in Israeli administrative detention since March
Israel’s interior ministry says it has deported a Palestinian-French human rights lawyer after accusing him of security threats, reports BBC.
Salah Hamouri, 37, was escorted onto a flight to France by police early on Sunday morning, the ministry said.
A lifelong resident of Jerusalem, he was stripped of his residency rights after officials accused him of being a member of a terrorist organisation.
Mr Hamouri denies the charges and rights groups have condemned the move.
But in a statement, the interior ministry said Mr Hamouri had “organised, inspired and planned to commit terror attacks” against “citizens and well-known Israelis”.
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, part of the outgoing Israeli government, hailed the move as a personnel success.
“The sentence for the terrorist Saleh Hamouri has been completed and he has been deported from Israel,” she said in a statement.
