Among them are prisoners who were released in the exchange deal - the threat to deport 20 Jerusalemite families
A series of prosecutions and "retaliatory" measures against the released prisoners and their families in the city of Jerusalem, perhaps the most dangerous of which is the threat to deport the released prisoners and their families from the city of Jerusalem, based on a law that stipulates "the expulsion of family members of those who carry out armed operations against Israeli targets", which was approved in November 2024.
Yesterday evening, it was revealed that the Ministry of Defense recommended deporting 20 Jerusalemite families from the city and revoking their Israeli identity or citizenship.
It was also revealed through the Israeli media that the police are working to "collect intelligence information" to prepare a list of the names of the people targeted by this law, and the list includes prisoners released in recent prisoner exchange deals.
The occupation authorities said that they have begun implementing procedures to deport two families from Jerusalem, the Farroukh family from the town of Silwan, and the Fteiha family from the Al-Farouq neighborhood.
According to the Israeli Channel 14, the occupation authorities submitted a request on 12/2/2025 to deport Yazan Farroukh, the son of Mohammad Farroukh who was released in the current exchange deal, noting that the father had been arrested and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
On February 15, 2025, they filed a request against Sayed Abed Fteiha, the brother of the freed Jerusalemite prisoner Nawal Fteiha, who was arrested in 2020 and sentenced to 8 years in prison, and was released in the exchange deal last month.
The "family deportation" law is implemented if the family had any prior knowledge of the operation or glorified and supported the operation after it was carried out. According to the law, the deportation order for an "Israeli citizen" is no less than 7 years and no more than 15 years, and in the case of a "permanent or temporary resident", for a period of no less than 10 years and no more than 20 years.
Based on this law, Israeli Minister of Interior Moshe Arbel decided, in the middle of this month, to deport 3 Jerusalemites from the city of Jerusalem, on the pretext of "supporting and endorsing terrorism."
They are: prisoner Tasneem Odeh, daughter of martyr Barakat Odeh who was killed in 2022 after carrying out a car-ramming attack; prisoner Mohammed Abu al-Hawa, brother of martyr Adam Abu al-Hawa who was killed in 2023 after carrying out a stabbing attack; and freed prisoner Zeina Barbar, "who was released in the current exchange deal", daughter of freed prisoner Majd Barbar who spent 20 years in prison. The occupation authorities also pursue freed prisoners, especially those released in the current exchange deal batches, by handing them decisions to ban them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, storming their homes and issuing fines against them, and vandalizing the contents of their homes.
