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US court orders deportation of Palestinian activist

Saturday 2-September-2017

US authorities have ordered the Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh to leave the United States within three weeks.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth website Jordan agreed to receive the 70-year-old activist and ex-prisoner accused of killing Israelis in a 1969 bombing in Tel Aviv.

In 1979 Odeh was released in a prisoner exchange deal. A few years later she travelled to the United States and was able to get a US citizenship in 2004.

The website pointed out that a US court gave the Palestinian activist a deadline of 19th September to the leave the States.

It added that the deportation order followed several trials against Odeh either on charges of being involved in “terrorist attacks” or forging immigration papers.

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