Brazil prevents entry of Palestinian suspected Hamas leader and deports him to Qatar

Brazil deported to Qatar late Sunday local time, early Monday morning in Portugal, Palestinian Muslim Abumar Rajaa, 37, suspected of being an important Hamas leader who landed Friday at a fair at Sant’s International Airport. Paulo. his pregnant wife, young son and mother-in-law, but he was not allowed to enter the country.

When they disembarked, Muslim and his family, who were living in Malaysia, were already waiting by agents of the Brazilian Federal Police (FF), who informed them that they would not be allowed to enter Brazil and were held in police premises until deportation. located in the international wing of the airport, before crossing the official border.

Federal police would have been alerted by Mossad, Israel’s “secret”, about Muslim’s trip to Sao Paulo, where his brother lives, and about the Palestinian’s alleged links to the extremist group that carried out the brutal attack on October 7 last year. attack on civilians in Israel and began an equally brutal Israeli response in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of people have already died, half of them women and children.

Muslin is reportedly one of six Hamas officials and will even appear on a list of leaders who could speak on behalf of the group published after last year’s attacks.

The Palestinian denies any connection to Hamas and says he is a university professor and director of an international research center in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, where he lives with his family. He visited Brazil on other occasions without any problems, but before the attacks by Hamas, which ruled the Gaza Strip and which is now trying to destroy Israel.

PF sources unofficially reported that one of Muslim’s intentions was for the woman to give birth to a child in Brazil at the end of her pregnancy. At the same time, he will be entitled to Brazilian citizenship and documents, including a passport, which will facilitate his international transit.

Lawyers in Sao Paulo have gone to court to try to guarantee the Palestinian’s entry into Brazil, and a judge on duty over the weekend even banned his deportation until federal police can prove he has ties to an extremist group and poses a real risk to the country. . However, this Sunday the same judge changed course and ordered the deportation of Muslim and his family, who went not to Kuala Lumpur, where they arrived, but to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where the main leaders of Hamas live.