Israel’s attorney general rejected a plan to deport the relatives and friends of terrorists from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. Elyakim Rubinstein said the plan amounts to collective punishment and is therefore illegal. He did approve deportations on a case-by-case basis if it is proven that the deportee aided the terrorist or was involved in terrorist activity.
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