The occupation arrested 5 of her sons...and she faces a decision to demolish her only shelter for the second time

Jerusalemite Asmaa Al-Shiukhi... The story of a Palestinian mother clinging to her small house

  • Al-Quds Al-Shiukhi clings to her house next to Al-Aqsa.

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  • The property that settlers settle next to the Al-Shikhi house.

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  • Al-Quds Al-Shiyoukh House is located 200 meters south of Al-Aqsa.

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While the color of the sky tended to turn red, at sunset on Tuesday, 26 October, the Jerusalemite lady Asmaa Al-Shikhi (Umm Muhammad), burdened with her worries and the tragedies of her holy city, returned to her home in Silwan, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, coming from the Yusufiya cemetery “The Martyrs.” » In the Bab Al-Asbat area in the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, where she and the people of Jerusalem were confronting the occupation bulldozers, while razing the graves of the martyrs and the dead.

Before Al-Shuyoukhy went to defend the historic cemetery, she had appeared before the Israeli court the same morning, in order to consider a petition she had submitted recently, objecting to a decision issued by the occupation municipality last October, to demolish her house in the Holy City, but the court postponed the response to The sheikhly petition, without specifying a date for consideration.

The occupation decision stipulates the demolition of the four-room house of the Jerusalemite woman, located in the “Hosh Al-Tula” area in the middle of Al-Bustan neighborhood, the middle lane of the neighborhoods of the Jerusalemite town of Silwan. Occupation.

deliberate targeting

What the 57-year-old Al-Shikhi faced in the Occupation Court is one of the episodes of deliberate and continuous Israeli targeting of her, her children, and her home. She also told Emirates Today.

Mrs. Asmaa Al-Shiukhi confirms that she did not give up, despite the cruelty of the demolition scene and the bitterness of homelessness, to rebuild her house and her children a year after it was demolished in October 2016.

The Jerusalemite (Umm Muhammad) says in a voice exhausted by the occupation’s procedures and intransigence, “The occupation did not specify, during the previous session, the date of the next session, to respond to the petition that I submitted, to stop the unjust decision to demolish my husband’s house and his family, so that he can do what he likes without warning, and this matter indicates However, my eight sons and I are liable at any moment to demolish our house over our heads, and to become homeless.”

In front of the house of Umm Muhammad Al-Shikhi, which is located 200 meters south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the occupation municipality crews were present early on Monday, 18 October, and tried to storm it, but the stability of the Jerusalemite lady prevented this, to receive a new order to demolish her house once a second.

The mother of Jerusalem said, "When he knocked on the door, I thought that the Israeli intelligence forces were coming to arrest my sons, or summon me for investigation, as happened in previous times, but I was surprised by the municipality's crews and they told me that the settlers near my house were complaining about me, describing my sons as the sons of a terrorist, and that I must be expelled from the area, Because my house obstructs their view.”

Al-Shikhi continues: “We are the ones who are not spared the attacks of the settlers who robbed the neighboring houses in the neighborhoods of the Jerusalemite town of Silwan. .

At the end of 2016, the occupation brought a group of settlers who settled a property next to the house of Umm Muhammad Al-Shikhi, a flock of settlement associations, so that the Jerusalemite woman immediately faced a series of pursuits by the settlers to get her out of the neighborhood in which she lived for decades, the last of which was her receiving the order to demolish her house for the second time .

Ms. Umm Muhammad refers to six settler families who are currently seizing the Jerusalem property that leaked to them, in addition to hundreds of settlers who settle dozens of Palestinian homes, not far from Al-Shikhi's house in Hosh Al-Tula.

pursuit and arrest

In parallel to the prosecution and targeting of Mrs. Al-Shukhi by settlers, during the last period she faced a wave of arbitrary measures, represented in their demand to leave her home, chasing her children and arresting five of them for two years, in addition to Umm Muhammad being summoned, detained and interrogated inside the headquarters of the Israeli intelligence.

The Jerusalemite says, “Over the past few years, I was taken by the Israeli unit (Al-Yamam) and the occupation intelligence service, the last of which was on the 22nd of last September, and I was detained for 24 continuous hours. There were many threats to demolish my house, but I did not pay attention to that, and I was returning to my house stronger than before.”

She added, "After spending many years inside it, I and my children will not leave our house, which is our only shelter, and if the occupation demolishes it a second and third time, I will build it again, just as it happened the first time, so that the story of the Al-Shoukhi family's house in Jerusalem remains firmly established throughout the times and ages."

• In parallel to the persecution and targeting of Al-Shyoukhi by settlers, during the last period she faced a wave of arbitrary measures, represented in their demand to leave her home, chasing her children and arresting five of them for two years, in addition to Umm Muhammad being summoned, detained and interrogated inside the headquarters of the Israeli intelligence.

• The occupation's decision to demolish the four-room house of the Jerusalemite woman, located in the "Hosh Al-Tula" area in the middle of Al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan town, and which has been owned by the Al-Shikhi family since 1920, leaving her the option of self-demolition, or by the occupation's bulldozers.

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