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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Geraldine McKelvie

Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’

Israeli security personnel receive a handcuffed Palestinian deported from the United States at Israel's Ben-Gurion international airport.
Israeli security personnel receive a handcuffed Palestinian deported from the United States at Israel's Ben-Gurion international airport. The plane made refuelling stops at Shannon airport. Photograph: Haaretz

Politicians in Ireland have said the use of an airport in County Clare by planes deporting Palestinians from the US to Israel is “reprehensible”.

A private jet owned by the Donald Trump donor Gil Dezer was chartered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two separate flights that took detainees to Israel, a Guardian investigation revealed this week.

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