Head of Jordanian senate condemns expulsion of MPs from Jerusalem

The head of the Jordanian Senate, Taher Masri, has condemned Israel’s decision to expel four MPs from the Palestinian Legislative Council from Jerusalem considering it a new offense in the series of Israeli crimes committed against the city and its inhabitants.

In a statement to the Jordanian News Agency ‘Petra’ on Thursday, August 5, Masri said that the Israeli decision was “a blatant flouting of all international laws and conventions and of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits an Occupying State from both forcible individual and mass transfer of Protected Persons or their expulsion from Occupied Territories to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other State.”

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Masri called upon the international community, the International Parliamentary Union and the Arab Parliamentary Union to put pressure on Israel and force it to rescind this decision which constitutes a dangerous escalation of the situation. He asserted that Israel’s willingness to expel the MPs is another in a long series of steps intended to Judaise Occupied Jerusalem and empty it of its inhabitants. The continued Israeli measures in this regard which aim at erasing the Palestinian Arab identity of the city have increased substantially under the Netanyahu government and need to be addressed.