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Israel’s expulsion of French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri amounts to a “war crime”, the UN human rights office said Monday. Hamouri, 37, arrived in France on Sunday after having been held without charge in Israel under administrative detention, a controversial practice that allows suspects to be detained for renewable periods of up to six months. “Deporting a protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, constituting a war crime,” UN human rights spokesman Jeremy Laurence said in a statement. Israel has accused Hammouri of being a…