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Deporting Rania Abbasi from Jerusalem to the West Bank under the pretext of illegally staying in the city
May 6, 2016

The occupation authorities deported on Friday morning 36-year old Rania Abbasi to the West Bank under the pretext of illegally staying in Jerusalem.

Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud explained that the Israeli police decided to deport Abbasi to the West since she holds a West Bank ID and doesn’t have a permit to enter Jerusalem.

Abbasi family explained that the Israeli police detained Rania for several house in Salah Eddin Street police station before being transported in a police vehicle to Al-Zaytoona checkpoint.

Abbasi was arrested after Thursday midnight after the forces raided her house in the neighborhood of Ras Al-Amoud in Silwan.

Abbasi is the wife of Jerusalemite prisoner Ala’ Eddin Abbasi who has been arrested since 2002 and is sentenced to 66 years in prison. She has three children; Safa’ (19), Sara (17) and Omar (14). It is noteworthy that she had Omar after her husband was arrested.

Abbasi was banned from visiting her husband all those years and the occupation authorities closed her house in Ein Al-Lozeh in Silwan with concrete after the arrest of her husband.