Ateret Cohenim plans to seize 87 homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood
750 Jerusalemites in Batn al-Hawa face deportation again
Residents of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in front of their threatened homes.
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The Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, the middle neighborhood of Silwan.
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Ateret Cohanim plans to establish a settlement in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood.
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Homes threatened by settlement takeover.
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Batn al-Hawa al-Maqdisi is 400 meters from Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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One of the homes threatened with confiscation in "Batan al-Hawa".
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Zuhair Al-Rajabi: "The residents of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood have identification papers confirming that the Yemeni Jews left the neighborhood before the establishment of Israel in 1948, and that the land on which the houses were built belongs to the Jerusalemite families since 1892, during the Ottoman era, and they have proof of that."
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Following in the footsteps of the plans to evacuate the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, east of the Old City of Jerusalem, the settlement plans hit the pillars of “Batn al-Hawa” neighborhood, the middle of the three neighborhoods of Silwan neighborhood, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, to disturb the residents’ sleep and instill fear in the hearts of children and women. An unknown fate leads them to the edge of forced displacement, and makes them prisoners of homelessness on the side of the road.
After a decision was issued to evacuate 87 homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, and to displace its 750 Jerusalemites, the plans for Judaization of the settlements are on their way inside the corridors of the occupation courts, where the second part of the battle of uprooting and displacement is disguised under the guise of the judiciary.
With the escalation of the confrontation between the residents and the “Ateret Cohenim” settlement association, and the imminent danger of seizing their homes, in the interest of the association, the families of “Ban al-Hawa” filed a lawsuit with the Occupation Court to stop their expulsion from their homes, but its decision last Wednesday, May 26, was Postponing the decision on the case of deporting families from the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan, Jerusalem.
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court decided in March of this year 2021 to forcibly evict two buildings inhabited by seven Palestinian families for the benefit of settlers, so that the two families appealed the decision, which is still in the corridors of the courts after postponing the consideration of the request of the two Jerusalem families.
The lawyer for the families of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, Muhammad Dahla, said: “The court did not consider the articles of appeal, but rather postponed the session, to decide to include the attorney general of the government in the file to express his position, until decisions are issued by the Supreme Court in appeals submitted in similar cases.”
unknown fate
After postponing the appeal of the Jerusalemite families in the Jerusalem neighborhood, their fate remains in the hands of the occupation and its courts, until another session is set, while the rest of the Batn al-Hawa families await the implementation of the decision to displace them at every moment.
The head of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood committee, Zuhair al-Rajbi, says: “The appeal rejected by the court was submitted only by two families living in seven houses, after previous orders were issued to evict their homes, at the end of last March, while dozens of families are still waiting for cases to be decided. related to evacuating their homes and displacing them outside (Batn al-Hawa).
“In the (Ban al-Hawa) neighborhood, a fierce and non-stop battle to seize our homes and forcibly displace us, so that the fate of our children will be the street, and on the ruins of our homes a large settlement will be established, which will be linked directly to the Ras al-Amud settlement in Jerusalem, and the outposts west of the neighborhood towards the neighboring Wadi Hilweh neighborhood » Al-Rajbi describes the dangers of the decision to evacuate (87) holy homes.
The head of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood committee continues his speech to "Emirates Today", saying: "The occupation's plans to displace Jerusalemites continue without stopping. After the decision to evacuate the homes of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, whose residents still face the threat of forced displacement, 750 Jerusalemites are exposed to the same fate, as The Ateret Cohanim settlement association plans to seize five dunams and 200 square meters of the middle neighborhood in Batn al-Hawa, on which 87 Jerusalem homes are built, under the pretext that it has been owned by Jews from Yemen since 1881.
According to the results of a field study by the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights (B'Tselem), the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood was divided into about 50 sections, nine of which were transferred to Ateret Cohenim, and another five were actually inhabited by settlers, while the settler association filed eviction lawsuits against 81 families. And the occupation municipality in Jerusalem imposed fines on two Palestinian families and issued demolition orders for a section of their homes, under the pretext of entering lands owned by “Ateret Cohanim.”
eternal struggle صراع
Residents of the Jerusalemite neighborhood, which is 400 meters away from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, are waging an open legal and political battle, within the corridors of the occupation courts, against “Ateret Cohanim,” which aims to evict and displace them from their original neighborhood in which they have resided for decades.
The head of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood committee states that the story of the conflict between the original Jerusalemite residents of the neighborhood and the settler Ateret Cohanim began when the settlement association established its first foothold in the neighborhood in 2004, by seizing a house belonging to his family (Al-Rajbi).
It is reported that in 2014, the settlement association handed Jerusalem residents decisions to vacate their homes, claiming that they lived on land owned by the Jews of Yemen before 1948, in order to seize a house owned by the “Abu Nab” family, under the pretext of establishing a cultural center for Yemeni Jews.
Al-Rajbi continues, saying: "The residents of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood have identification papers confirming that the Yemeni Jews left the neighborhood before the establishment of Israel in 1948, and that the land on which the houses were built belongs to the Jerusalemite families since 1892, during the Ottoman era, and they have proof of that." .
uprooting and displacement
Zuhair al-Rajabi, 51, head of the Batn al-Hawa People's Committee, and one of the Jerusalemites whom Ateret Cohenim notified to seize their homes, and where he has lived for decades, has been waging a legal battle within the corridors of the courts since May 2015, when he handed over A lawsuit was filed against him by representatives of the Israeli Waqf, which has now intensified with the renewal of that lawsuit against him.
Al-Rajbi owns identification papers, confirming that his father bought 150 square meters of land with a total area of five acres and 200 square meters during the era of the Jordanian guardianship over the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, before its occupation in 1967, and after he inherited it from his father, the house became composed of several floors, all of them In the grip of the fangs of settlement takeover.
With the decision to evacuate Zuhair Al-Rajbi’s house before the court, he and his family of seven will be subject to displacement, as part of the evacuation decisions of the settlement association, which is one of the largest displacement operations that the Holy City has witnessed since (53 years), after the “Haret Al Honor” witnessed » In the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967.
• According to the results of a field study by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood was divided into 50 sections, nine of which were transferred to Ateret Cohenim, and another five were actually inhabited by settlers, while the settlement association filed eviction lawsuits against 81 families.
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