Israeli Court To Al-Kurd family: Settlers Will Stay In Your Home

The Israeli Central Court heard and rejected Wednesday the petition of the Al-Kurd family seeking the eviction of Israeli settlers from their home.

The home, vacant following a court order demanding the Al-Kurds leave the building following a demolition order from Israel’s Jerusalem municipality, was taken over by Israeli settlers on TuesdayWednesday, and denied the plea treplied on Wednesday to the petition of Al-Kurd family from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood where they called the Israeli court to issue an order to evacuate the settlers from their own home that was dominated by the settlers on Tuesday.

Jerusalem affairs official with Fatah Hatem Abdel Qader said the decision came only hours after the court heard the petition from the Al-Kurd family lawyers Hosni Abu Hassanein and Sami Irshid, then the lawyers with the settler group.

Abdul Qader told Ma’an the decision was “wierd” since the home was slated for demolition by the Jerusalem municipality. He accused the courts of siding with settlers rather than the law.

A video from the International Soldiarity Movement captured the settlers moving into the home, and Umm Al-Kurd confronting some of the men and asking, in Arabic, for them to “get outside,” and “walk out of here.”

Israeli police demolish the only shelter (a tent) of evicted Palestinian family for the fourth time

At approximately 9am this Wednesday, four police vehicles containing eight Jerusalem police and four border police armed with automatic weapons came to Sheikh Jarrah and demolished the Gawi tent for the fourth time. The demolition took place as there were several people sleeping in the tent. The police failed to alert those sleeping to their destructive actions. The Palestinian family’s possessions were confiscated and removed in police pick-up trucks and golf carts. One hour later, a British national was arrested. The Gawi family has lived in the tent for four months now, since 2 August 2009 when they were forcefully evicted from their home, now occupied by settlers.

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The original article, as written by the Ma’an staff, can be found at Ma’an News Agency entitled: “Israeli court to Al-Kurd family: Settlers will stay in your home”