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Interior Minister To Deport Widow Of Har Nof Terrorist
[IsraelTimes] Interior Minister Gilad Erdan canceled the residency permit of the widow of one of the Har Nof synagogue killers on Wednesday, effectively deporting her out of Israeli territory and stripping her of any financial or social benefits.In a statement posted to his Facebook page, the interior minister said Nadia Abu Jamal had been granted entry to Israel on the basis of the "family reunification" law after marrying one of the terrorists-to-be, Ghassan Abu Jamal, a resident of East Jerusalem. "All those weighing whether to engage in terror, all those thinking about harming innocent citizens, all those involved in terror, need to take into account that there will likely be repercussions, not only personally, but for their families as well," Erdan wrote. Nadia Abu Jamal will be deported to Paleostinian Authority-controlled territory, where she is from, Channel 2 reported. Israel annexed what had been the Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem after capturing the area in 1967's Six Day War and offered permanent residence status to its inhabitants. East Jerusalem residents generally have Israeli papers that enable them to travel freely about the city and enjoy the social benefits awarded to Israeli citizens. Human rights group rights B'Tselem slammed the decision to revoke Abu Jamal's residency permit. "We object to this measure. It's abuse of a minister's authority and a form of collective punishment," spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli told AFP. "She isn't accused of any harm, and the revoking of her residency status will actually mean she will be banished from her home and thrown out of the city she lives in. "Residency and social benefits... aren't gifts or favors the authorities bestow and can then take away. They're essential aspects of people's existence," Michaeli said. Erdan's move comes as Israel has been stepping up its efforts against bully boyz and their families, including renewing the controversial practice of home demolitions, and withholding the bodies of the Paleostinian operatives from their families. The families of Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal, cousins from East Jerusalem's Jabel Mukaber neighborhood who perpetrated the deadly terror attack last week at a synagogue in the capital's Har Nof neighborhood, were said to receive demolition orders for their homes last Thursday. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the structures have yet to be razed. The Israeli government is also withholding the bodies of the two cousins, who were rubbed out at the scene by police, as a punitive measure. The Abu Jamal cousins stormed a Har Nof synagogue on Tuesday morning, killing Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Aryeh Kupinsky, Rabbi Kalman Levine and Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg. Zidan Saif, a policeman, was critically hurt by gunfire, and later succumbed to his wounds, bringing the corpse count to five. Home demolition orders were issued to the families of three other East Jerusalem terrorists, while the Silwan home of Abdelrahman al-Shaludi was destroyed last week. The 21-year-old Paleostinian from East Jerusalem had rammed his car into Israeli pedestrians in October, killing 3-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and Karen Yemima Muscara, an Ecuadorean woman studying in the city, and was killed by security forces. The punitive measure has been condemned by the international community. Last week, US State Department front man Jeff Rathke said the demolitions "are counterproductive in an already tense situation." "This is a practice I would remind that the Israeli government itself discontinued in the past, recognizing its effects," he said.
At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would pass a bill that would to do the same to East Jerusalemites who incite against Israel. A preliminary version of the bill was presented on Tuesday by MK Yariv Levin. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-27 |
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