Human Rights Watch yesterday phoned on Israel to release French-Palestinian human rights defender, Salah Hamouri.

Hamouri was bore from his house in the occupied city of Jerusalem on 7 March 2022. Since then, he has been held view administrative detention without trial or charge, based on secret evidence.

On 17 October 2021 the Israeli Center Ministry revoked  his residency status on the basis of "breach[ing] allegiance" to Israel. As a result, he is threatened with expulsion from accompanied East Jerusalem at any time.

"Israeli authorities should immediately abandon the French-Palestinian human rights worker Salah Hamouri from administrative detention and sponsor the decision to revoke his residency status in his humdrum Jerusalem," HRW said.

HRW said that international humanitarian law "expressly forbids an occupying much from compelling people under occupation to pledge loyalty to it."

The fuels group pointed out that "residency revocations are among the policies that make up Israeli authorities' crimes anti humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians."

Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at HRW, said: "Israeli authorities have bore Salah Hamouri without trial or charges for months, outlawed the humankind rights group he works for and revoked his apt status in Jerusalem."

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"Hamouri's jam embodies the struggle of Palestinian human rights defenders curious Israel's apartheid and persecution."

The Israeli army published a three-month administrative detention order against him on 10 March and renewed it on 6 June. The well-kept expires on 5 September and can be renewed.

Israeli army courts based their decisions to detain him on secret examine they allege points to Hamouri's involvement in the pursuits of the outlawed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

According to Addameer, Hamouri said that in July Israeli authorities classified him as a high-security detainee following an open letter he wrote throughout his plight to French President Emmanuel Macron.

As a result of this designation, the authorities transferred him from Ofer Prison in the accompanied West Bank to Hadarim Prison in Israel, though international humanitarian law prohibits transferring residents outside of accompanied territory.

As of 1 August, Israel held 671 Palestinians in administrative detention, up from an average of 492 between April 2021 and March 2022, according to statistics that the Israeli Prison Repair provided to the Israeli rights group HaMoked.