On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities decided to deport two international peace activists, one Swedish and the other Irish, due to their solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Israeli forces abducted the two women in southern Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, late last week following a complaint from illegal paramilitary colonizers.

The colonizers alleged that the two “violated a military order” issued by the so-called “Central Region Commander” of the Israeli army.

They were accused of engaging in “anti-Israel activities” and “entering a military training camp near the illegal Avigail colony,” built on stolen Palestinian land.

The two were held and interrogated at an Israeli police station in Hebron before authorities issued an order banning them from the West Bank for 15 days, later deciding to deport them abroad.

One of the peace activists appealed the expulsion order, before the occupation authorities decided to detain them in Givon prison until the appeal was reviewed.

In recent months, Israel, as the occupying power, has barred numerous tourists and political figures, including parliamentarians from several countries, from entering the occupied West Bank.

The bans were imposed under the pretext of supporting the Palestinian people, facing constant violations, the escalating attacks by Israeli colonizers and forces in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the genocide in Gaza.

Approximately two weeks earlier, Israeli occupation forces fired live rounds at a diplomatic delegation visiting the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank.

The delegation, composed of 25 representatives and diplomats from the European Union, Canada, France, China, Russia, and several Arab nations, was on a humanitarian mission to assess the impact of ongoing Israeli military operations in Jenin.