Now we are also worried that they will take my youngest son to Gaza. He was imprisoned few months ago, in September, and was sentenced to four months of administrative detention. We don't know whether they will release him or just renew the detention. They [the Israelis] spoke about deportation, they asked him why he is living in Bethlehem and told him he is an illegal alien. He told them he had been living in Bethlehem since he was one and half years old. I have all of his school certificates to prove that he has been actually living here since he was a small child, and I also have official papers from UNRWA to prove that we have been living in the refugee camp for a long time. The Israeli judge said they will study his case but they didn't say anything about deporting him to Gaza when they ordered his administrative detention, so we're just hoping he won’t be. Having my son in Gaza is really hard, but it's really hard for him to leave anywhere else. If we had West Bank IDs we would’ve been able to apply for permits and go visit him in Gaza. We applied to change our IDs in 2011, I got rejected but my husband and kids are still on the waiting list. I don't know why I got rejected even though I was born here in Bethlehem and I originally had a West Bank ID. The refusal was for security reasons. I think they're refusing to change our IDs because my children are in jail. My family is divided into three different places, one family in three parts, Gaza, Bethlehem and the Israeli prisons.” Mother of prisoner deported to the Gaza Strip, Aida Refugee Camp Interview: 28 November 2016 In response to petitions submitted by human rights groups, highlighting the illegality of Israel’s deportation of Palestinian detainees, the Israeli Supreme Court has held that such deportations are lawful insofar as Israeli domestic law, which permits such deportations, and takes primacy over international law in the event of any direct conflict between the two. Such a position, however, represents a clear contravention of Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which asserts that a party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for a failure to perform a treaty obligation.233 Conditional Release In order to suppress any future action by prisoners or detainees upon their release, Israel often employs a conditional release policy to continue to exert control over their movements and activities outside of prison. Some prisoners, like Bilal Kayed from Nablus, are offered release only on the condition of deportation from their place of origin (in Kayed’s case to Jordan) 233 BADIL and Addameer, Deportation as policy: Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Detention, 17 April 2016. Available at: http://www.badil.org/phocadownloadpap/badil-new/publications/ research/in-focus/addameer__badil_factsheet_17_april_2016.pdf 65