LISBON, June 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Palestinian activist exiled to Portugal under a deal to end the Israeli siege of Bethelehem's Church of the Nativity, is banned from leaving the country, a newspaper quoted Portugal's interior minister as saying Wednesday, June 12.

Portuguese Interior Minister Antonio Figueiredo Lopes told the Diario de Noticias that Annan Tanjeh's place of residence in Portugal would also remain secret, Agence France -Presse (AFP) reported.

The minister said Tanjeh had been asked to "respect the law and national order and not to commit an illegal or criminal act against the Portuguese state, the Portuguese and all foreigners present on Portuguese territory."

He said Tanjeh had also promised to not leave the country and to keep Portuguese authorities informed of his whereabouts at all times.

"Only Portuguese authorities will know of his place of residence and will keep this information secret for reasons of security."

Lopes said he regretted that only some European countries had welcomed the Palestinian exiles and "the principles of solidarity and humanity are not subscribed to by all European Union members."

The Palestinian Authority's delegate general in Portugal, Issam Beseisso, said Tanjeh was looking for an apartment in Lisbon.

Tanjeh, one of 13 Palestinians granted exile in Europe after being holed up with nearly 200 others in the Church of the Nativity during a five-week Israeli siege, arrived in Portugal May 23.

Six European countries agreed to grant exile to the 13 Palestinians. Spain and Italy are providing refuge for three men each, Greece and Ireland two each and Portugal and Belgium one apiece.

Israel says Tanjeh is a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the military wing of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization.

On May 26, Israeli daily newspaper Ma’ariv said that British intelligence has prepared a secret document discussing the fears of the seven European countries, to which the Palestinians were exiled, that the Israeli intelligence, the Mossad would assassinate them.

According to this document, Mossad’s preliminary plan is to track and keep an eye on these Palestinians in the European countries they were exiled to. The next step, the paper said, would be to kill them.

This was not an unprecedented action coming from the Mossad. The document gave an example of what happened to the Palestinian resistance activists who killed 11 Israeli athletes during Munich Olympics in 1972; the Israeli intelligence service tracked them down and killed them.