Israeli minister orders expulsion of families of Palestinian attacker in Jerusalem

Jerusalem [Israel], September 29: Israeli Interior Minister AyeletShaked ordered on Wednesday the expulsion of families of a Palestinian man who carried out an attack five years ago in East Jerusalem.
Shaked said on Twitter that she sent a notice to seven family members of Fadi al-Qanbar who killed four Israeli soldiers in a truck-ramming attack in East Jerusalem's Abu Tor neighborhood in 2017, asking them to "leave the country within a week or (they will) be forcefully evicted."
The minister also asked Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev to prepare policing forces to expel the seven if they won't leave by Oct. 6.
"Israel should fight terrorism with all the available means and it's time to use also this tool for deterrence," Shaked said.
The recent move came after a ruling by a Jerusalem court last Wednesday that Israel can revoke the residency permits of al-Qanbar's 17 family members.
The Palestinian family lives in JabelMukaber, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem, a territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed shortly later in a move that has never been recognized by most of the international community.
In past years, several Israeli interior ministers made attempts to expel family members of Palestinian attackers but were usually blocked by the Supreme Court.
The al-Qanbar family told the Israeli daily Ha'aretz newspaper that they intend to appeal the ruling.
Source: Xinhua