The passing of the force-feeding bill was ostensibly justified on the basis of saving and preserving human life.226 Contrary to the public justification, however, senior government officials have consistently made evident that the true purpose of the bill was to “prevent any political harm” hunger strikes could potentially cause, to “avoid ‘surrendering’ to [the detainees’] demands, to avoid the questioning of abusive policies”227 and, importantly, to “eliminate Palestinian prisoners’ sole means of peaceful protest.”228 The objectives of the bill are thus political in nature. Instead of approaching hunger strikes from a perspective of medical concern, prison officials have approached them as an act of rebellion requiring punishment, not just by force-feeding, but also by methods including putting hunger strikers in solitary confinement, fining them, and banning family visits.229 The legalized act of force-feeding in Israel is therefore a politically driven, extreme policy used to oppress resistance and break those who participate in resistance by removing the last tactic available to prisoners to advocate for their rights. Deportation of Prisoners Legal Framework Deportation of protected persons from occupied territory into the occupying state constitutes an unlawful deportation as per Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as constituting a grave breach of the same Convention under Article 147, and is also recognized as a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. More specifically, Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which draws heavily from Article 49, stipulates that an occupying power may not detain residents of the occupied territory in prisons outside of the occupied territory. Though Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention does provide certain, limited grounds under which temporary evacuations of civilians are permitted, “[s]uch evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement.” The requirement that “any sentence of imprisonment must be served in the occupied territory 226 Ibid. 227 Ibid. 228 Addameer, Factsheet: Force-feeding under International Law and Medical Standards op. cit., 16 November 2015 229 Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, Forced Feeding Fact Sheet: things you need to know, op. cit., 27 July 2015 62