(by Addameer, Prisoner Support and Human Rights Organisation)
Occupied Ramallah, 20 August 2014 - The Israeli Military Governor
in the West Bank has signed a military order expelling Palestinian
Legislative Council Member and Addameer board member Khalida Jarrar to
Jericho for a period of six months, with immediate effect.
At 1.30 A.M on 20 August 2014 approximately 50 Israeli occupying
soldiers surrounded Jarrar’s home in Ramallah. An Israeli captain then
proceeded to hand Jarrar an order which states that Jarrar must not
leave the district of Jericho for the next six months and can only leave
with the express permission of the Israeli military commander in the
West Bank. Accompanying the order was a map outlining the boundaries of
Jericho district. The order states, based on secret information, that
Jarrar is a threat to the security of the area. She was given 24 hours
to leave Ramallah. Jarrar refused to sign the order.
Jarrar was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in
January 2006 and has continued to serve as an elected representative
ever since. She is also the Palestinian representative on the Council of
Europe and is head of the Prisoners Committee of the PLC.
Jarrar has been a prominent human rights activist for many years. She
previously served as the director of Addameer from 1993 to 2005 and
remains a board member. She has also previously worked with UNRWA and
has been active working with Palestinian women.
Since 1998 Jarrar has been banned from travelling outside of the
occupied Palestinian territory, expect for one occasion in 2010 when she
travelled to Jordan for medical treatment. Jarrar is married with two
children. She has a received her B.A and Masters in human right and
democracy from Bir Zeit university.
The order is based on Israeli Military Order 1651 Article 297 (2009)
and is based on the accusation that Jarrar is “dangerous to the general
security of the area.” As is standard with Military Orders and the
decisions of Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, GOC Central Command, the order does
not explain or clarify the danger that Jarrar poses.
Jarrar lives in Ramallah, which according to the Oslo Agreements
between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the occupation, is
considered “Area A” and under complete Palestinian control. By allowing
Israeli occupying forces to enter Ramallah means that in effect the
so-called ’security co-ordination’ between Palestinian Authority
security forces and Israeli occupying forces allowed for the expulsion
of an elected representative of the Palestinian people, an elected
representative who has continuously called for an end to such
’coordination’.
The order to expel Jarrar to Jericho violates Article (42) of Geneva
Convention IV which is applied to the occupied Palestinian territory,
and states “The internment or placing in assigned residence of protected
persons may be ordered only if the security of the Detaining Power
makes it absolutely necessary.”[1]
The decision of the Maj. General also violates Article (49), which
prohibits forced collective or individual transfer of protected persons,
or banning from them from the occupied territory to the territory of
the Occupying Power, under any circumstance.
This is not the first instance the Occupation has forcibly
transferred Palestinian Legislative Council members who have been
democratically elected. In 2010, three PLC members, Mohammad Abu Teer,
Ahmad ’Atoun and Mohammad Totah, as well as Minister of Jerusalem
Affairs Khalid Abu Arafeh were deported from their homes in Jerusalem to
Ramallah. Shortly after, all four were arrested by the Occupation and
placed under administrative detention, which is detention without charge
or trial.
Take Action
Here is how you can help Khalida Jarrar :
*Write to the Israeli government, military and legal authorities and
demand the military order expelling her to Jericho is revoked
immediately.
· Brigadier General Danny Efroni
Military Judge Advocate General
6 David Elazar Street
Harkiya, Tel Aviv
Israel
Fax : +972 3 608 0366 ; +972 3 569 4526
Email : arbel@mail.idf.il ; avimn@idf.gov.il
· Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon
OC Central Command Nehemia Base, Central Command
Neveh Yaacov, Jerusalam
Fax : +972 2 530 5741
· Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon
Ministry of Defense
37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya
Tel Aviv 61909, Israel
Fax : +972 3 691 6940 / 696 2757
· Col. Doron Ben Barak
Legal Advisor of Judea and Samaria PO Box 5
Beth El 90631
Fax : +972 2 9977326
* Write to your own elected representatives urging them to pressure Israel to revoke the military order.
[1] The internment or placing in assigned residence of protected
persons may be ordered only if the security of the Detaining Power makes
it absolutely necessary.
If any person, acting through the representatives of the Protecting
Power, voluntarily demands internment and if his situation renders this
step necessary, he shall be interned by the Power in whose hands he may
be.
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