Salah Hamouri (Arabic: صلاح حموري) (born 25 April 1985)[1] is a French-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.

After over 3 years' detention without trial,[4] on the advice of his lawyer, while protesting his innocence he admitted culpability in a plea bargain in order to avoid a 14-year term of imprisonment, and was sentenced by a military tribunal to serve a 7 in jail.

[7] On 5 January 2016,[15] his wife, then six months pregnant,[7] was arrested and detained for two days after arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport and thereafter expelled from Israel, despite having a consular visa valid until October of that year.

[15] Previous attempts to renew her visa had met with repeated refusals on the grounds that her husband was free as part of a prisoners' exchange deal, which automatically left him blacklisted by every branch of the Israeli government.

[2] By refusing to allow his wife to finish her pregnancy in Jerusalem, the Israeli authorities automatically deprived their child of the right to a residency permit in that city,[7] a decision that, it has been argued,[by whom?]

[c] In the early months of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Hamouri was shot in the thigh with live ammunition during a confrontation between Israeli troops and demonstrators at Al-Ram in northern Jerusalem.

[18] He was caught handing out leaflets protesting Israeli "colonization," and was sentenced to five months in jail for "anti-Israeli propaganda"[14][17] or/and for being a member of a student union (syndicat des étudiants).

[14] At 19, he was again arrested by the Shin Bet in 2004, and from February of that year[19] served another five-month term in prison, without trial, on suspicion of being a member of George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Palestinian Marxist group regarded internationally as a terrorist organization.

[18][d] In September 2005 Moussa Darwish (22) from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiya, who had joined the PFLP in 2000, confessed that he had planned to assassinate Ovadia Yosef, the head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

[25] Darwish had been employed by a grocery near Ovadia's house, and had made deliveries to his residence in Har Nof,[10] something that afforded him the opportunity to case the property and familiarize himself with its security arrangements.

The two accomplices were believed to have visited Givat Shaul in December 2004 to prepare their attempt,[25] but the plan was foiled the following month when a scheduled consignment of ammunition from a third party at the Shuafat checkpoint was blocked by the presence of IDF soldiers which made the proposed transfer too risky.

[13][1] Two hours later Israeli agents ransacked his parents' home in East Jerusalem, seizing his computer's hard disk, and even dismantling the toilet in search of evidence.

Kouchner took this as a request for a speedy trial, and two days later, the military prosecutor contacted Tsemel and offered a bargain: a seven-year term of imprisonment, rather than fourteen, if he admitted to the facts.

[1] Sarkozy had requested Israel to release Hamouri during his visit to the country in June 2008, and the following year in a letter to the Prime Minister on 30 July 2009, asked for clemency and a reduction of his sentence by a third in recognition of his good behaviour, as did Bernard Kouchner.

Juppé wrote to Marie-France Beaufils, a senator, on 31 March 2011 that: I regret that the Israeli authorities did not make a decision to remit the sentence, especially as the confession made at the hearing was not corroborated by any evidence.

[l] In April 2015, the military commander of the West Bank Nitzan Alon banned him from entering the area for a period of six months, from 24 March until 24 September 2015, meaning that he would not be able to sit his exam in July to qualify as a lawyer.

[11] A hearing took place on 27 August, and, when the prosecution failed to list a charge sheet for indictment, the judge ordered his release conditionally: he was to be confined for 10 days in Reineh, banned from Jerusalem for 3 months, prohibited from travel for the same period, and required to post bail for $3,000.

[35] On 28 December 2017 Israeli authorities informed him he would be moved to the high-security Megiddo prison for engaging in "incitement": he had given an interview with a French journalist and had discussed the techniques used by the IPS in dealing with people under conditions of administrative detention (Addameer 2018).

[2] Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa demanded that Israel either release him or charge him immediately, since in the view of that organization the detention regime under which he is held places him in an "indefinite limbo" on secret evidence he or his lawyers have no access to.

[36] 109 French public figures, including the socialist Senator Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga offered collectively to take his place in jail, as hostages, to permit his release.

[7] In 2018 a law was passed in the Knesset empowering the Israeli government to revoke permanent resident status in cases where it deemed a person had committed what it calls a "breach of trust against the state".

[37] Hamouri was arrested on Tuesday 30 June 2020 near a Sheikh Jarrah Health Centre[11] while taking a COVID-19 test, preliminary to leaving on a flight to Paris the following Saturday, 4 July.

[27]In the opinion of Munir Nusseibeh of Al-Quds university, the planned measure also violates article 8 of the statute of the International Criminal Court, and the implementation of the expulsion would make Aryeh Deri liable to prosecution for a war crime.