MADRID 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A committee of the Israeli Parliament approved this Tuesday a bill promoted by the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, of which National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is a member, to deport relatives of convicted “terrorists.”
The initiative, approved in the commission by nine votes in favor to two against, allows the Ministry of the Interior to expel first-degree relatives of those convicted of terrorism in the event that they had prior knowledge of said terrorist actions or for expressing support for your loved ones.
The bill, which expressly applies to Israeli citizens, will now have to be voted on in the plenary session of the Knesset in second and third reading to be approved, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
Ben Gvir, who hopes that Justice will not reject the law because it attributes expulsion powers to the Interior Ministry, has highlighted on social networks that with this measure the “terrorists” will know “before carrying out their plot that all their relatives will be deported” from Israel.
For his part, the far-right deputy Almog Cohen, who presented the proposal, has assured that this “proportionate” bill has “broad public support” in Israel and its objective is to “hit the soft stomach of terrorists.”
Cohen already said in February when the text was presented to the commission that after the attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on October 7, Israel is “more obliged than ever to impose the most severe penalty.”
“Based on my many years of familiarity with Arab society, family deportation is the most effective and significant act to eradicate terrorism,” he said, adding that the bill corrects “years of injustice” since many family members ” They boast about the actions of the murderers”, even turning them into “heroes” or role models.
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