Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director Today

Expand HRW's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir in Ramallah, May 2018. © 2018 AFP (Jerusalem) – Human Rights Watch will keep documenting abuses despite the Israeli government’s expulsion of the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch on November 25, 2019. The deportation reflects the authorities’ intensifying assault on human rights. The director, Omar Shakir, will depart tonight after Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the government’s deportation order on November 5 and gave him until November 25 to leave. Human Rights Watch’s work on human rights abuses committed by Israel,…

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