Deportation of Palestinians

As has been mentioned previously, the Zionist entity has exercised the policy of forced deportation against Palestinian citizens for the purpose of uprooting the Palestinian people from their land. Moreover, the penalty of deportation has been carried out by means which would clearly be defined as "brutal" by the standards set forth in Article 112 of laws issued in 1945 known as "Emergency Regimes", and according to which "the Minister of Defense and the military ruler possess the right to expel any person from the country, or to forbid him to enter therein if he is already outside" (1). The Zionist entity has executed its terrorist policy in two ways: individual deportation, and mass deportation. Individual deportation operations have been applied to most of the professional, union-related, social, political, educational and religious figures [who once resided in the occupied territories]. Among these, some have been given mock trials or allowed to appeal before the Supreme Court, which then proceeded to endorse the original deportation order. In other cases, the individuals concerned were deported without any trial whatsoever, the deportation taking place by their being led to some point along the borders shared with Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon or Syria (2).

As for mass deportations, the terrorist occupation powers have carried them out since the first days of their occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In the beginning, they would gather together Palestinian citizens in various neighborhoods, villages and camps, then choose large numbers of young men on the pretext that they were suspected of being military personnel, after which they would be detained and deported. By this means, the occupation powers have deported more than 8,000 Palestinian citizens in the course of a single operation (3). The following chart presents the numbers of those deported between 1967 and 1992, at which time the last Zionist deportation order was carried out against 418 Palestinian citizens under suspicion of belonging to either the Hamas movement or the Islamic Jihad.

Numbers of Palestinians Deported in the Period
Between 1967-1992

References

1. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part 4, op. cit., p. 488.
2. Labib Abd al-Salam Qudsiya, Deportation of Palestinians from Their Homeland, 1967-1993, Amman, 1993, pp. 12-13.
3. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, Part 4, op. cit., p. 489.
4. Labib Abd al-Salam Qudsiya, op. cit., p. 44.