JERUSALEM, Sept 29 (NNN-XINHUA) – Israeli Interior Minister, Ayelet Shaked, ordered yesterday, the expulsion of families of a Palestinian man, who carried out an attack five years ago in East Jerusalem.
Shaked said on Twitter that, she sent a notice to seven family members of Fadi al-Qanbar, who killed four Israeli soldiers in a truck-ramming attack in East Jerusalem’s Abu Tor neighbourhood in 2017, asking them to “leave the country within a week or (they will) be forcefully evicted.”
The minister also asked Public Security Minister, Omer Bar-Lev, to prepare policing forces to expel the seven, if they won’t leave by Oct 6.
“Israel should fight terrorism with all the available means and it’s time to use also this tool for deterrence,” Shaked said.
The recent move came, after a ruling by a Jerusalem court last Wednesday that, Israel can revoke the residency permits of al-Qanbar’s 17 family members.
The Palestinian family lives in Jabel Mukaber, a neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, a territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed shortly later, in a move that has never been recognised by most of the international community.
In past years, several Israeli interior ministers made attempts to expel family members of Palestinian attackers, but were usually blocked by the Supreme Court.
The al-Qanbar family told the Israeli daily Ha’aretz newspaper that, they intend to appeal the ruling.– NNN-XINHUA
