trial, and without giving any reason for the arrest, and to renew the detention once every six months indefinitely. Similarly, the deportation law, based on article 112 of the state of emergency of 1945, gives the military governor absolute authority to deport whomever he wants and for any reason he deems fit, although additions to these laws do grant the persons against whom an expulsion decision is taken the right to appeal that decision before the military courts, including the Supreme Court of Military Justice. Those additions are purely formal in character, because they are not binding on the military governor. And invok- ing them so far has failed to rescind the expulsion of any of those against whom expulsion decisions have been taken. 40. As the Israeli lawyer Amon Zachroni indicated last August, expulsion or deportation has been illegal ever since the 1945 Nuremburg trials established the process of expulsion or deportation as a war crime. The Geneva Con- vention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August l949,’ also defined deportation-or expulsion-as illegal. 41. The fust victim of these practices was that freedom tighter, brother Ziad Abu Eain, who needs no introduc- tion, since a number of General Assembly resolutions were adopted in his case and he was released in a prisoner exchange arranged by the International Red Cross. On 8 August 1985, the military occupation authorities took a decision to deport brother Hilal Abu Ziad from Jerusalem. He had just served a IO-year sentence, after which he spent. 3 years outside prison, and it has ended up with him living far from his homeland, Palestine. 42. That action was preceded at the beginning of the year by the deportation of our brother Shaheen from the Gaza 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a report on human rights violations in the context of a military occupation. It discusses the arrest, detention, and deportation of individuals without due process, and highlights the illegality of these practices under international law. The text also mentions specific cases of individuals affected by these practices, including their circumstances and the consequences of their deportations.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Human rights