Five Palestinian Families Face Eviction in Favor of Zionist Settlers

Date: 12 January 2019 - 21:50

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist officials have handed down orders to five Palestinian families residing inside a building in occupied East al-Quds to evacuate their homes by the end of the month.
The Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (al-Quds) (CCPRJ) said on Saturday that the regime’s so-called Law Enforcement Department had given the order to the Sabbagh family to leave the building in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East al-Quds, and turn it over to the extremist settlers who had claimed its ownership by January 23.
Established in 2005, the CCPRJ is a Palestinian non-governmental organization that aims to contribute to effective mobilization and cooperation of civil society vis-à-vis Israeli policies undermining Palestinian rights in occupied East al-Quds.
In 2012, the Sabbagh family lodged a lawsuit at the Israeli District Court in al-Quds against the Zionist settlers' claim that they owned the land in question.
Even though the family provided the court with conclusive evidence proving ownership of the land and that setters’ land registration process done in 1972 was illegal, the court ruled in favor of the settlers.
The family appealed the decision to the High Court on November 15, 2018, and requested to open the file of land ownership. However, the High Court rejected the appeal and upheld the District Court’s decision.
The family, through its lawyers, then re-appealed against the High Court’s ruling through asking for a five-judge panel instead of three. The attempt failed as well, which left the eviction of the five families imminent.
More than half a million Zionists live in over 120 settlements built since the regime’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in 1967. This is while much of the international community considers the settler units illegal and subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied land.
Less than a month before U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2334, calling on the regime to "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem (al-Quds).”
About 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds as its capital.