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Denmark to consider asylum applications from Palestinians in Gaza

The Danish Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) is to consider asylum applications from Palestinians from Gaza, the authority said on Thursday.

Published: 29 February 2024 16:53 CET
Denmark to consider asylum applications from Palestinians in Gaza
Protestors demonstrate against Israel's military campaign in Gaza, January 7th 2024 in Copenhagen. Danish authorities will now consider asylum claims from Palestinians in the territory. Photo: Ólafur Steinar Rye Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix

The Refugee Appeals Board’s coordination committee (koordinationsudvalg) has decided that conditions in Gaza have reached “a requisite level of extreme execution of violence” that article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights can be violated.

That justifies granting asylum to applicants from Gaza under Denmark’s immigration laws, it said.

The decision was confirmed by the Refugee Appeals Board in a statement on Thursday. It means that stateless Palestinians from Gaza who have received support or protection from UN refugee agency UNRWA can, in principle, be granted asylum in Denmark.

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that subjection to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is in breach of human rights.

Israel has repeatedly bombarded Gaza since October in response to an October 7th terror attack on Israeli territory by militant organisation Hamas, in which the group took around 240 hostages and killed around 1,200 people.

Over 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli military strikes, health authorities in Gaza have said.

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Danish intelligence agency says terror threat affected by war in Gaza

The threat of terror has increased in Denmark primarily due to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, according to the Danish police intelligence agency PET.

Published: 21 March 2024 17:09 CET
Danish intelligence agency says terror threat affected by war in Gaza

The overall terror threat rating against Denmark remains at four out of five, however, PET said in a new threat assessment released on Thursday.

“Both Quran desecrations and the conflict in the Middle East have a derived significance for the threat situation in Denmark,” the head of PET’s Centre for Terror Analysis, Michael Hamann, said in a press statement.

PET therefore sees the terror threat against Denmark and Danish interests as intensified for at least the next year, the statement continues.

The Centre for Terror Analysis has long considered the level of terror threat to Denmark to be at a level of four out of five. This rating means that PET has identified the capacity, intention and planning of a potential attack against Denmark, but without any attack taking place.

A level five rating would mean both a specific threat and possible initiation of an attack.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas has potential to radicalise, meaning it could have consequences related to the terror threat in Denmark, Hamann said.

“It’s important to stress that it naturally is completely legitimate to be engaged and have an opinion about the conflict as long as this is done in a legal way. The many civilian victims cause an emotional response for many people [in Denmark],” he said.

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