Salah Hamouri, a French-born Palestinian human rights attorney, was deported by Israel after being charged with security offences against the state of Israel, according to a statement from the Israeli interior ministry.
There was no legal action that Hamouri could take, according to his campaign, therefore he was escorted to the airport early on Sunday morning and took a flight to France.
On December 1, Hamouri, a 37-year-old Jerusalem resident without Israeli citizenship, had his residency status withdrawn due to allegations that he participated in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group that Israel and its friends in the west consider to be a terrorist organisation.
In a statement, the Hamouri campaign referred to the deportation as a "war crime" and claimed that it violated international law.
Hamouri stated in a statement that "whenever a Palestinian moves, he takes with him these beliefs and the struggle of his people: his country carried with him to wherever he ends up."
Israel most recently held Hamouri in administrative detention without charges from 7 March until 1 December before revoking his residency and announcing his deportation.
He was previously imprisoned by Israel from 2005 to 2011 after being charged with trying to kill Sephardi rabbi Ovadia Yossef, the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. He has consistently maintained his innocence, though.
