Israeli authorities decided to deport a West Bank woman to Gaza Strip after she ended her prison sentence, a Palestinian activist said on Saturday.

"The Israeli occupation doesn't allow Shereen al-Sheikh Khalil,24, to go to Ramallah where her family lives and insists on deporting her to Gaza Strip on Sunday after her prison sentence ended," said Abdel Nasser Farwana, a prisoner rights activist.

According to Human rights groups in Gaza, Israel has deported around 30 West Bankers to Gaza since the beginning of the 2nd Intifada or Uprising erupted against Israel in the Palestinian territories in late September 2000.

Al-Damir director Khalil Abu Shamallah told Xinhua on telephone that Israel usually deports some West Bank prisoners, who end their sentence terms, either to the Gaza Strip.

"Israel allegedly says the reason to deport Palestinians to Gaza is to prevent them from practicing any activities in their hometowns. This kind of punishment is illegal and contradicts with international laws," said Abu Shamallah.

Israel had pulled out from the Gaza Strip after it evacuated 20 settlements in the summer of 2005. In 2007 Hamas movement took control of the enclave after it routed President Mahmoud Abbas security forces.

Al-Sheikh Khalil was arrested in 2003 and her family in Ramallah has been waiting for her since then but the Israeli authorities will exile her to the Gaza Strip despite the non-stop pleas, according to Farwana.

The Palestinian groups strongly opposes the deporting of West Bank residents to Gaza Strip since the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) accepted a compromise to temporarily deport 26 activist to Gaza Strip in 2002 but the activists were not allowed to return home.

Islamic Hamas movement, which controls Gaza Strip, holds an Israeli soldier hostage but Israel offers to deport some of the prisoners, who would be freed under a swap, were among other factors that obstruct the prisoner exchange from taking place.