The Occupation Court forced the Al-Rajabi family to evacuate a residential building in the Silwan suburb, south of occupied Jerusalem. The same court also approved a decision to demolish four residential facilities in the Wadi Homs neighborhood of Tire Baher village, south of the Holy City.
The first decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by the settlement "Ateret Cohenim" in 2016 claiming ownership of the property, and the "Valley of Sweet" information center in Silwan states that the owners of the building lived in it for decades after purchasing the land and the property from its previous owners with official papers.
The settler association has claimed the right to administer and own the property since 2001, and has begun to pursue citizens in Israeli courts, issuing judicial notices and threats to evict 84 families.
The picture shows the house of the Al-Rajabi family in red. And in yellow, the additional houses that "Ateret Kohnim" settlement demanded to evacuate. https://t.co/UMHW58uOGc - Ultra Palestine - Ultra Palestine (@palestineultra) January 20, 2020 |
The Al-Rajabi family building is located on a plot of land with an area of about five acres
(5000 square meters) in the middle of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan, and the occupation claims that it belongs to the Jews of Yemen since 1881.
Settlement excavations
On the other hand, the occupation authorities notified the owners of seven houses in the Old City of Jerusalem of evicting them due to the cracking caused by the settlement excavations below.
The Governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, stated that the collapses occurred in the buildings of "Bab Al-Silsila" as a result of excavation and sabotage activities carried out by settler societies with the support and protection of the occupation government in the framework of its project to Judaize the city and displace its people.
The newspaper "Al-Quds" quoted a resident of "Bab Al-Silsila" as saying that there are about 22 families in the neighborhood that are threatened with eviction, and about two hundred residents of the area adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque face the danger of eviction due to the occupation's excavations and settlement activities.