First deportation from West Bank to Gaza under new apartheid-style IDF pass law

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The new IDF order has swung into operation already with the first Palestinian deported yesterday from the West Bank to Gaza. where are the condemnations from world leaders at this blatant act of colonial-style oppression?
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel deported a Palestinian prisoner to the Gaza Strip instead of releasing him to his West Bank home, the man and Palestinian officials said, charging Israel with using controversial new military orders.

The prisoner, Ahmad Sabah, 40, was refusing to leave the Palestinian side of the main crossing between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

"It is inhumane what they are doing. He has no connection to Gaza, no relatives there, nothing," said Issa Qaraqi, the minister of prisoner affairs in the government of the Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

Qaraqi claimed Israel was implementing a new set of military orders that critics fear could lead to mass deportations from the occupied West Bank. more
On Wednesday there was protests in Gaza against the IDF order. The rally was notable in that it brought together Hamas and Fatah for the first time since 2007.
Representatives of rival Hamas and Fatah movements attended the rally near Erez terminal which connects the Gaza Strip and Israel and is only open to foreigners, patients and people with special arrangements.

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