JERUSALEM -Israel don make new law wey allow dem take deport family members of attackers. Experts say e go fit get struck down. 

Israel parliament pass law early Thursday October 7, 2024 wey go allow dem to deport family members of Palestinian attackers, including di country own citizens, go war-torn Gaza Strip or oda places.

According to report, di law wey members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus Likud party and him far-right allies dey support, pass wit 61-41 vote.

But legal experts talk say any attempt to carry am out go likely make Israeli courts strike am down.

E go apply to Palestinian citizens of Israel and residents of annexed east Jerusalem wey sabi about dia family members attacks before or wey “show support or identify wit di act of terrorism.”

Dem go deport dem, either go Gaza Strip or anoda place, for period of seven to 20 years.

Di Israel-Hamas war still dey happen for Gaza, wia plenty pipo don die and most of di population don dey displaced.

E no clear if e go apply for di occupied West Bank, wia Israel don get long time policy to demolish di family houses of attackers.

Palestinians don carry out plenty stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks against Israelis for recent years.

Oded Feller, wey be legal adviser to di Association for Civil Rights for Israel, dismiss di law as “populist nonsense.”

E talk say e no go fit apply, bicos no legal way for di Interior Ministry to send Israeli citizen go anoda country or to Gaza.

Him organization no plan to challenge di law unless authorities try to enforce am, for dat case, e expect any court challenge go succeed.

Eran Shamir-Borer, wey be senior researcher for di Israel Democracy Institute and former international law expert for di Israeli military, agree say di law fit likely get struck down by di Supreme Court.

E talk say if pesin wey dey live for east Jerusalem get deported under di law, plenty pipo for di international community go see am as violation of di Fourth Geneva Convention, bicos dem dey view di area as occupied territory, although Israel no dey see am like dat.

“Di deportation of Israeli citizen fit be like not only as violation of dem constitutional rights under Israeli law, but also as breach of dia human rights under international law,” e talk.

“Di law fit also be like form of collective punishment and as discriminatory, bicos e be like say e only dey apply to Arab citizens and residents, and no dey apply to family members of Jews wey don get convicted under terrorism laws.”

“Di bottom line be say dis one no dey follow constitution at all and e dey clash wit Israel core values,” Shamir-Borer talk.

“Israel don capture Gaza, West Bank and east Jerusalem for 1967 Middle East war.”

“Na di land wey di Palestinians wan use for dem future state.”

Dem witdraw settlers and soldiers from Gaza for 2005, but dem don re-occupy some parts of di territory since Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 start di war.

“Israel don annex east Jerusalem, but most of di international community no recognize am.”

“Palestinians wey dey dire get permanent residency and dem fit apply for citizenship, but most no wan do am, and dose wey wan do am dey face plenty wahala.”

“Palestinians wey dey live for Israel na about 20% of di country population.”

Dem get citizenship and di right to vote but dem dey face plenty discrimination.”

Many of dem still get close family ties to pipo wey dey for di territories and most of dem dey sympathize wit di Palestinian cause.

Around 90% of Gaza pipo wey dey 2.3 million don waka comot bicos of di war, plenty times too, according to wetin U.N. talk.

Hundreds of thousands don gada for big tent camps wey dey near di coast, no light, no water wey dey run, no toilet. Hunger dey everywia.

Hejjo dey live for one tent for hospital courtyard.

Before dat, she dey for Muwasi, di main tent camp for southern Gaza.

“E dey smell bad,” she talk. “Sickness dey spread.”

She talk say her husband wey dey suffer from liver disease, don dey heartbroken when e hear say di house don spoil and e die shortly afta.

She be one of di first wey come back afta Israeli forces comot for April.

Her neighbors no come back, dem dey fear say dem go see body or bomb wey no explode.

But for her, na still home.

“E beta make I dey for my home, wey I don dey live for 37 years, even though e don spoil,” she talk.

Hejjo and her pikin dem dey dig through di rubble wit shovel and dem bare hand, dey go brick by brick and dey save wetin dem fit re-use.

Torn cloth dem dey use to feed di cooking fire.

Rat don creep enta, and plenty mosquito dey hover for di ruins.

Broken glass dey everywia. Dem set up tent wey dem fortify wit corrugated metal sheet and some brick wey dem salvage from her house wey don destroyed.

Small drizzle dey wet dem cloth as dem dey sleep. U.N. agencies talk say unemployment don rise to about 80% up from nearly 50% before di war and say almost di whole population dey live for poverty.

Even pipo wey get money go find am nearly impossible to import construction materials bicos of Israeli restrictions, ongoing fighting and di breakdown of law and orda.

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