Israel's Supreme Court ruled today in favour of the deportation of two Palestinians accused by Israel of helping their brother to carry out a bombing.
A nine-judge panel ruled that sister and brother Intisar and Kifah Ajouri could be deported from the West Bank to the fenced-off Gaza Strip for two years because they are accused of helping their brother, alleged to have masterminded a suicide bombing, to hide from Israeli security forces and move bombs.
In the case of the Ajouri siblings, the court ruled: "It was held that it had proved that they were involved in terrorism to the extent required such that they presented a reasonable possibility of danger".
But it rejected the deportation of a third Palestinian, Abed Nassar Asida, whose brother co-ordinated two shooting attacks that killed 17, because it said his involvement amounted to "merely lending his brother a car and giving him clean clothes and food at his home".
It said there was "no connection between the petitioner's acts and the terrorist activity of the brother".