Israeli security and emergency service staff deployed at the site of a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem, on July 19, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)

Israel deported French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri on Sunday, accusing him of security offenses against the state of Israel, the Israeli interior ministry said in a statement.

Hamouri was escorted to the airpor early Sunday morning where he boarded a flight to France with his campaign saying there was no legal recourse for him to take.

Hamouri, 37, a Jerusalem resident without Israeli citizeship, had his residency status revoked on December 1 on charges that he was active in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, classified by Israel and its western allies as a terror group.

"During his life he oraganized, inspired and planned to commit terror attacks on his own and for the organization against citizens and well-known Israelis," a statement from the interior ministry said.

"Wherever a Palestinian goes, he takes with him these principles and the cause of his people: his homeland carried with him to wherever he ends up," Hamouri said in a statement.

Hamouri was most recently detained by Israel under administrative detention without charge on March 7 until December 1 when Israel revoked his residency and stated he would be deported. He was previously detained by Israel between 2005 and 2011 after being accused of attempting to assassinate Sephardi rabbi Ovadia Yossef, but has always maintained his innocence.

Hamouri was released in December 2011 as part of an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was released in October 2011 after five years in captivity in the Gaza Strip at the hands of Hamas.

Reuters