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The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law allowing the government to deport the family members of people convicted of terrorism offences, including Israeli citizens.
The controversial legislation, proposed by a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, applies to first-degree relatives, meaning the parents, siblings or children of those found guilty of committing or supporting terrorism.
Israeli human rights organisations say the law is unconstitutional as some opposition members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, suggested it is targeted only at Palestinian citizens of Israel, sometimes called Israeli Arabs.
The law allows for the deportation of the family members of those who had advance knowledge and either failed to report the matter to the police or “expressed support or identification with an act of terrorism”.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said that there are no other means of generation of funds for projects in the nation’s capital apart from the Internally Generated Revenues, IGR. Wike said it is the only way the FCT Administration has been able to fund the numerous projects in both the city center and area councils. The minister said on Thursday that the FCT Administration […]
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