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Israel makes new law to deport Arab Israeli citizens to Gaza if they have relatives in resistance

Israel’s parliament passed a law early today to allow it to deport anyone to the Gaza death zone who has a family member in the Palestinian resistance – including Arab-Israeli citizens.

The law, sponsored by members of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and his far-right government allies, passed by 61 votes to 41.

The law, which makes a mockery of Israeli propaganda claims about its treatment of its approximately two million Arab citizens, applies to Palestinian citizens of Israel and to those living in annexes East Jerusalem, as well as to any who “express support or identification with the act of terrorism”, which the government is free to define as it wishes.

So-called ‘offenders’ could be deported to the Gaza Strip or to another location of the Israeli regime’s choosing for a period of between seven and twenty years. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has so far killed around two hundred thousand people and maimed many more and the regime is engaged in a campaign to starve the two million or so who still survive, including a complete blockade of northern Gaza and the categorisation of the four hundred thousand people clinging on there as terrorists to be killed.

It is likely, given the framing of the law, that merely having a relative in northern Gaza could therefore be treated as enough grounds for deportation.

Neither UK PM Keir Starmer nor Foreign Secretary David Lammy have so far condemned Israel’s latest discriminatory – and murderous – legislation.

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