The decision to evacuate and confiscate 28 homes would displace 550 Jerusalemites

In pictures ... "Sheikh Jarrah" ... 2800 Maqdisi in "the blown of displacement"

• Residents of the neighborhood and a number of solidarity with them in a vigil.

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• Jerusalemites reject the decision to evacuate and confiscate their homes.

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• Residents of the "Sheikh Jarrah" Jerusalem neighborhood are determined to stay.

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• The house of the Al-Ghawi family in Al-Maqdisi was confiscated in 2009. Emirates Today

• The head of the “Sheikh Jarrah” neighborhood committee is Salih Diab.

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• The young woman, Mona al-Kurd, whose house is threatened with eviction and confiscation.

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• The confiscation of 28 homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood for the residency of settlers.

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We have been living in a large prison since Friday, May 14th, and we are afraid at any moment we have been expelled from the house of our fathers and grandparents, and we will be displaced overnight. The young woman, Mona Al Kurd, from the original Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, describes in these terms the tragedy of 2,800 Jerusalemites living in the neighborhood. "Sheikh Jarrah", east of the Old City of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, as a result of the occupation’s decision to evacuate 28 Jerusalemite homes for settlers to reside in.

The Kurds, whose family is facing a decision to evacuate their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem: “The neighborhood has turned into a closed military barracks. The occupation forces deliberately provoke the people and hinder their movement, while allowing settlers who colonize several houses in Sheikh Jarrah to move freely.”

The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the Holy City of Jerusalem is facing a fierce battle being waged between the original Jerusalemites and settlers, as the occupation tries to expel them and seize their homes since 1972. In 2009, homes in the neighborhood belonging to the Kurdish, Hanoun and Ghawi families were seized.

A court battle

According to a survey conducted by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), eviction lawsuits have been filed against at least 218 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, including families in “Sheikh Jarrah,” most of them at the initiative of settlement associations, exposing (970) People, including (424) children, at risk of displacement.

“Emirates Today” toured the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where the features of a fierce war between the Jerusalemite population and the settlers who colonize the home of the Al Ghawi family, which is in the middle of the houses threatened with seizure, with the protection of the occupation forces that besiege the neighborhood, and prevent the people from holding a sit-in in front of their homes that were issued She is entitled to a decision to evacuate and confiscate.

The head of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood committee, Saleh Dhiab (51 years old), who is one of the owners of houses threatened with eviction and confiscation, says: “The 2,800 residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood live in a large prison, as a result of the occupation’s siege of the neighborhood and the closure of Its entrance is through military checkpoints, and concrete blocks.

Risk of expulsion

He points out that the (550 Jerusalemite) owners of the 28 houses threatened with eviction are waiting at every moment to be evicted from their homes and deported, in light of the occupation forces ’assault on them and the siege of Sheikh Jarrah.

Diab faces the risk of evacuating his home, as a result of activating the decision to displace the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood within the Occupation Court. Thus, the fate of his family, including his sick father and his brother's family, whose number is 24, is in the process of displacement.

In September 2020, the occupation issued a decision to evacuate four families from the neighborhood, namely, Al-Jaouni, Qasim, Al-Kurd, and Iskafi, followed by another decision in the following month, which required the eviction of three other families, namely, "Hammad, Dajani, and Daoudi."

The Israeli Supreme Court postponed a hearing on the evacuation of four Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, in favor of the settlers, while three other families in the same neighborhood await a similar decision next August, thus threatening displacement of 550 Jerusalemites, who live in 28 A house in the neighborhood at the hands of the settler associations.

The head of the committee for the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood stresses that their legal battle continues to establish their right to their homes and land, and to cut off roads in front of the ambitions of settlement associations that pursue them inside their homes.

Lullaby Scheme

What is happening in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, according to Dhiab, is a lullaby scheme, to establish 320 settlement units on the lands of the people and their homes, and will expand after the process of confiscating the homes of “Sheikh Jarrah”, to reach the homes of Jerusalemites in the neighborhoods of Wadi Al-Joz, Al-Sawana, Jabal Al-Zeitoun and Ras Al-Amud , Jabal Al-Mukaber, Al Bustan, Batn Al Hawa, and the town of Silwan.

He points out that a short time ago, the occupation seized a plot of land of an area of ​​six dunums, and established police and settler stations on it.

The head of the committee for the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood says: “What the residents of the (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood of al-Maqdisi are facing is the story of a people facing displacement, uprooting, beating, and demolition. Two weeks ago, I was beaten by settlers and occupation soldiers, and I suffered a broken leg, as well. My father, my sister, my children, and my nephews were assaulted while they were trying to break into our homes, which are threatened with eviction and confiscation. ”

He added, “We are unable to protect ourselves inside our homes, and we do not have the ability to protect them from eviction. At any moment, we will be displaced, and our fate will be on the side of the road.” After 74 years of displacement and displacement, the occupation wants to uproot us, mulberry, olive, grape and lemon trees, to be It is permissible for the settlers. ”

• What is happening in the "Sheikh Jarrah" neighborhood is a lewd plan to establish 320 settlement units on the lands of the people and their homes. After the confiscation process, it will expand to reach the homes of Jerusalemites in the neighborhoods of Wadi Al-Joz, Al-Sawana, Jabal Al-Zeitoun, Ras Al-Amud, Jabal Al-Mukaber, Al-Bustan and Batn Al-Hawa And the town of Silwan.

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