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Rights group says it has documented dozens of field executions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Israeli extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir meets with possible presidential candidate Mike Pompeo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attempts by Frontex to rebrand itself as a humanitarian organization ring hollow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amman unilaterally canceled agreement with US in November, court filing reveals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on an agreement of Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh with the U.S. government, under which she agreed to her deportation from the U.S., as of March 2017, and mentions a U.S. court ruling regarding torture and rape she suffered by her in Israeli custody.

The article highlights the statement of Andy Murray, founder of Scottish National Party (SNP) Friends of Palestine, that Israeli embassy official Shai Masot who plotted to take down a hit list of lawmakers of Great Britain was responsible for his deportation by Israel in 2017.

The article discusses the decision of U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain to open a new trial for Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh who has been found guilty of immigration fraud following a trial in a federal court in Detroit, Michigan.

The article reports on the plight of a Palestinian refugee as he faces deportation from France following his refusal to act as an informant for French intelligence services.

The article discusses bans and restrictions on Palestinians in Jerusalem with an emphasis on political activist Daoud al-Ghoul. Topics include Ghoul's deportation from West Bank, his imprisonment by Israel, and confiscation of land and houses belonging to Palestinians by Israel and Israeli settlers. Information sourced from United Nations' OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) regarding cancellation of Palestinians' residency rights is included.

A reprint is presented of an article that appeared in the September-October 2014 issue of "Islamic Horizons" regarding the case of Palestinian professor Sami Al-Arian, whose indictment on alleged terrorism charges were dismissed by the U.S. government in order to deport him from the country. Topics include comments from Al-Arian's lawyer Jonathan Turley, his dismissal from the University of South Florida, and U.S. judicial system policies after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The article presents information on the deportation of Palestinian refugees by Lebanon who were fleeing to Syria. It states that Palestinians living in Syria are the displaced people who lost their homes in civil uprisings. Since then they had found a safe home in Lebanon, but now it seems that the country is not willing to provide them shelter anymore.

The article features 80-something Um al-Walid as she recalls her experience of being forcibly expelled from the village of Zarnuqa, Palestine with her husband Abu al-Walid Muhammad Eid and their two small children in 1948. Topics discussed include the organized expulsion of Palestinians between 1947 and 1948, the horrors experienced by her family from the invaders, and the perspectives from Abu al-Walid.

The author presents a personal narrative of his experience in travelling to Egypt in June 2013, wherein he was sent back to Gaza by Egyptian authorities.

The article reviews a blog by Ali Abunimah on Egypt's deportation of Palestinians on their way to Gaza.

The article claims that the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi marks the turning point in the fight against Israel's deportation according to the Palestinian prisoner's rights group Addameer. Issawi was released to Jerusalem in December 2012 after eight months of hunger strike. Palestinians who were reportedly affiliated with Hamas or the Islamic Resistance movement were exiled after a U.S.-brokered deal was reached to end Israel's siege of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem.

The article relates the story of Palestinian solidarity campaigner Frank Barat who experienced invasion of privacy when his e-mail account was searched on April 22, 2013 upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to his trip, Barat set up a special e-mail account to prepare for the security procedure. However, Israel's internal security service, known as Shabak, was disappointed because his inbox was empty. He was deported back to Belgium following his day in Israel custody.

The article reports on the testimonies of jailed Eritrean migrants and asylum seekers that Israeli officials at Saharonim prison in the southern Negev desert are coercing them to sign voluntary repatriation forms. One Eritrean detainee reported being visited by a translator telling her to accept deportation to Uganda. Official documents from the Israeli assembly, the Knesset, quote Interior Minister Eli Yishai saying deportations did not yet start.

A blog on the deportation of South Sudanese refugees from Israel is discussed.

The article reports on the court victory of Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah in his case against deportation in Great Britain. Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, has been banned from the country two days before he entered legally in June 2011. Upper tribunal judge Mark Ockelton ruled that there is no lawful basis for Home Secretary Theresa May to implement the exclusion order that was based on the same material as the deportation order.

The article reports on the plans announced by Israel to deport refugees from South Sudan. It states that the move could be a rehearsal for the expulsion of Palestinian citizens of Israel. According to Interior Ministry of Israel, several people from South Sudan must leave or face deportation. The Israeli government announced in 2007 that it was willing to pay third countries to remove Africans from the country.

The article reports on the infiltration law updated by the Israeli parliament as of January 2012, which would lock up African asylum seekers without a trial, while a deportation order is sought and enforced. In addition, Israelis who offer assistance to the asylum seekers could possibly face up to 15 years of jail sentences. The building of a huge detention camp for the asylum seekers has been approved by officials and would be operated by Israel's prison service.

The article provides details of the Israeli role in Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah's June-July 2011 detention and attempted deportation by the British government. It cites published documents by Electronic Intifada proving that the Tribunal judges' accusation of Salah's anti-Semitism was fabricated was a malicious translation of his original words. It notes how Salah refused voluntary deportation on concerns that Israeli authorities will use the deportation in their campaign against him.

The article reports on the involvement of the British government in a plot with Israel to deport Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah. It cites the move of British Home Secretary Theresa May to ban Salah even before the Community Security Trust (CST) has sent a report on Salah about his being anti-Semite. Real estate billioniare Pujo Zabludowicz has funded the Conservative Party leadership campaign of British Prime Minister David Cameron who pushed for the ban of Salah.

The article describes how Australians Sylvia Hale and Vivienne Porzsolt were able to enter Palestine after being given deportation notice by Israel. Hale is a former Green Party member of the New South Wales upper house of parliament while Porzsolt is a spokesperson for Jews Against the Occupation. They went to Palestine to join the Welcome to Palestine project. Their encounters with border officials, the help of lawyer Omer Shatz, and the overturn of their deportation order are discussed.

The article reports on the deportation of children of migrant workers in Israel. It contends that children of these workers are put in jail prior to deportation. It discusses calls of human rights groups for an immigration policy and an official protocol on how to handle this case. Comments from Moriel Matalon, chairman of the Israel branch of the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) and Noa Galili of the organization Israeli Children, are presented.

The article reports on the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, on July 1, 2011. Salah will allegedly be deported from Great Britain and has been given up to July 6 to appeal against the decision. A profile of Salah is offered, including some details of his speaking engagements in Great Britain prior to his detention reportedly to talk about the Arab revolts and to launch a new campaign on Jerusalem.

An interview with Muhammad Totah, an elected Hamas lawmaker who defied order by the Israeli authorities to leave Jerusalem, Israel, is presented. When asked what led him and his three other elected lawmakers to seek refuge at the Red Cross headquarters in East Jerusalem, he narrates their case and his desire to put their case in the international community radar. Totah informs that if they are deported from Jerusalem, it will mean deporting thousands of people from Jerusalem for disloyalty. He also argues that East Jerusalem is an occupied territory.

The article reports on the deportation of international human rights campaigner and Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire from Israel after more than a week of detention at the Tel Aviv Airport. Maguire was supposed to be part of the Nobel Women's Initiative (NWI) delegation to Israel and Palestine. She attempted to fight the deportation order by filing an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court. The court though upheld the deportation accusing Maguire of indulging in propaganda.

The article discusses the fight of three Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members against Western hypocrisy and expulsion in Jerusalem. PLC members arrested include Muhammad Abu Tir, Muhammad Totah and Ahmad Attoun as well as Palestinian Authority (PA) Khaled Abu Arafe who is former minister of Jerusalem affairs. The three PLC members stayed at the Red Cross Compound of East Jerusalem where supporters including British lords and ambassadors from Egypt and Jordan visited them.

The article discusses the decision of Israel to expel several Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem in July 2010, which is a move condemned by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli human rights groups. It says that the government of Israel revoked the residency rights of the said individuals because of claims that they were in breach of trust for belonging to a foreign parliament. According to the author, the move reflects Israel's anger at Hamas' increasing hold on the political sympathies of 260,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem.

The article reports that several Palestinians are protesting their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into the Gaza Strip where Hamas authorities have refused them entry. The deportation follows the Israeli military order which allows the expulsion of Palestinians or foreigners in the West Bank who are considered by Israel as infiltrators. According to critics, Israel is trying to solidify the geographical and political divide between the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

The article reports that Israel is intensifying its attack on critics and dissenters of its policies with threats, arrests, deportations. Media headlines have cited several incidents of Israeli hostility including the arrests of Jewish-American journalist Jared Malsin and Czech national Eva Novakova. The item also mentions Israel's political blackmail of the Palestinian Authority (PA) over a report by Justice Richard Goldstone concerning war crimes committed by Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance groups.

The author opposes the ongoing efforts by the Egyptian government to prevent international organizations to bring aid to Gaza Strip as of December 29, 2009. Accordingly, the Egyptian government has threatened members of these organizations with arrest and deportation. According to the author, despite the repressive action by the Egyptian government, the controversy has attracted mainstream media which he hopes would expose Egypt's guilt in violating human rights.

The article reports that South Africa deported an Israeli airline official due to allegations that the Israeli security agency, the Shin Bet, spied on South African citizens. The official was accused of letting the Shin Bet enter the OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa to acquire information on African and Muslim citizens of South Africa. This was a response by the South African government towards the illegal interrogation of an undercover reporter by an official of El Al, the national airline of Israel.

The author focuses on the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the Sadiyya Muslim neighborhood in Old City, Jerusalem. She relates incidents in which houses in Muslim neighborhoods have been claimed by Israeli colonists from the right-wing Messianic settler organization Ataret Cohanim. Home owner Umm Alaa Jaber believes that the pressure placed upon them concerning their houses is aimed at making them submit to the Israelis. The author mentions that such struggle reflects the fight to resist Israeli ethnic cleansing practices.