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Broad support in Knesset for bill to deport terrorists’ families to Gaza

Source: Broad support in Knesset for bill to deport terrorists’ families to Gaza – Israel News – Jerusalem Post

LET IT BE WRITTEN, LET IT BE DONE !

Transportation and intel minister says bill is “a first-rate act of deterrence,” and called on the Attorney-General’s Office to cooperate and allow it to be passed into law quickly.

MKs from all coalition parties and some in the opposition signed a bill to deport terrorists’ family members, which Knesset House Committee David Bitan (Likud) submitted Wednesday.

The idea for the bill came from Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, after Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said last week that expelling Palestinian terrorists’ families from the West Bank to Gaza violates Israeli and international law and could play into the hands of those seeking to have Israel tried for war crimes in the International Criminal Court.

Katz said the bill is “a first-rate act of deterrence,” and called on the Attorney-General’s Office to cooperate and allow it to be passed into law quickly.

“Everyone must understand that we are at the height of a war against ISIS-style terrorist attacks by radical Islam,” Katz stated. “This is terrorism by individuals, about which we do not have additional intelligence, and therefore, we need to take additional deterrent and preventative steps.”

According to Katz, support from coalition parties as well as Yesh Atid, including party leader MK Yair Lapid, and Yisrael Beytenu, shows how necessary the bill is and that it has broad public support, giving it a good chance of passing.

Bitan pointed out that two former Shin Bet chiefs – MK Avi Dichter (Likud) and MK Ya’acov Peri (Yesh Atid) – support the bill, indicating its great potential, and said it could be the factor that brings the wave of terror to an end.

The bill states that family members of a terrorist who helped commit the act of terror or knew about it in advance could lose their permanent residence status, if they are residents of sovereign Israel, including east Jerusalem, or be deported from the West Bank, if that is where they live.

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