Two German citizens deported through Jordan crossing
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says two “terrorist-supporting anarchists with German citizenship” have been deported through the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge, not to be allowed into Israel again.
The far-right minister claimed the two entered an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and “disturbed and clashed with soldiers”.
“A special team that I established in the Israel police as soon as the war broke out acted with determination and speed to arrest and deport them,” he wrote in a post on X. “That’s the only way it works!”
International activists have for decades tried to raise awareness of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in the West Bank, and some have been killed by Israeli soldiers, with no accountability.
‘Taking sides’: A brief history of international solidarity with Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/10/6/us-turkish-womans-killing-last-month-puts-a-spotlight-on-international-activists-efforts-to-expose-israeli-violence
A month ago, Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier, igniting widespread global condemnation, and putting a spotlight on the role of international activists in Palestine and their efforts to expose the violence of Israel’s occupation.
Like the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed over the past year, there has been little consequence for Israeli soldiers over the activist’s killing.
Foreign nationals began travelling to Palestine in greater numbers specifically to document the realities of life under Israeli occupation, participate in protests, attempt to stop home demolitions or accompany Palestinians to their land in an effort to protect them from Israeli settler and military attacks.
Locked out: Palestinians in Jordan still wait to return to stolen homes
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/10/6/locked-out-palestinians-in-jordan-still-waiting-to-return-to-stolen-homes
Amman, Jordan – In 1949, a year after the State of Israel was created, Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion reportedly said: “The old will die and the young will forget.”
It’s a prediction that amuses Omer Ihsan Yaseen, an erudite 20-year-old optician and third-generation Palestinian refugee living in Jordan’s capital, Amman.
“We will return, I am sure of that,” he says firmly as he points at a thick iron key that once opened the heavy-set doors to his grandparents’ stone house in Salamah, east of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv in Israel.
Like Yaseen, many Palestinians forced from their homes in the Nakba (1948) and Naksa (1967) still hold onto keys to their homes as symbols of their right to return.
A Palestinian refugee shows the key to his family’s home in Hebron
