A court in the Netherlands has ruled imprisoned Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayyash can be extradited to Austria, after he fled the country earlier this year, claiming Austrian authorities raided his home and abused his pregnant wife.

Ayyash, the founder of the news site Gaza Now, escaped to Austria after he lost relatives during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. He had been living in Austria since 2016, but says he was forced to flee to the Netherlands after Austrian authorities raided his house and physically abused his pregnant wife.

“He was actually in Gaza when the house of his family was bombed, and they think, his relatives believe, that he was actually targeted as a journalist for doing his job,” Al Jazeera’s Step Vassen reported from Amsterdam following the Dutch court’s ruling.

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