No longer afraid’: Palestinians vow to fight Jerusalem evictions
In any event 218 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem have expulsion bodies of evidence documented against them, putting 970 individuals in danger of constrained relocation, UN says.
Involved East Jerusalem – Jerusalem’s District Court deferred a decision this week on an allure by seven Palestinian families, including 44 individuals, confronting removal from their homes in the Batan al-Hawa space of Silwan.
Palestinians say, nonetheless, what they see as the “Judaisation” of East Jerusalem, consolidating ejections, will proceed – it is simply a question of time.
The court delay on Wednesday followed an earlier ruling by the magistrate’s court that the families, part of 19 families from Batan al-Hawa, be expelled from their homes to make way for Israeli settlers who claim they lived there before 1948 when the state of Israel was established.
“The court will delay the ruling because the situation is very tense in East Jerusalem now due to the Palestinian families also facing expulsion in Sheikh Jarrah and the raids into Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Fakhri Abu Diab, head of the Committee for the Defense of Silwan’s Lands and Real Estate and a researcher on Jerusalem affairs, told Al Jazeera.
“With the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken currently in the region it’s also not a good time to proceed with making Palestinians homeless,” Abu Diab said.
“However, the Israeli courts will eventually side with the settlers in the future and the expulsions will go ahead.”
‘No longer afraid’
Clashes erupted in Shekih Jarrah over several weeks recently as Palestinians protested the pending expulsion of several families from their homes and clashed with Israeli security forces, resulting in many injuries and arrests.
