Sources in Israel have confirmed that the country’s High Court has issued a ruling allowing a number of Jewish settlers in Jerusalem to evict dozens of Palestinian families from their homes in the Shaykh Jarah district of the occupied city. According to Haaretz newspaper, the Court rejected an appeal by a number of Palestinian residents against the planned evictions.
The Palestinians regard the order as unjust as it violates their rights to own private property in land to the west of Shaykh Jarah. Meanwhile, Israel’s “Bureau of Absentee Property” has claimed that the land belongs to the Jews.
This High Court ruling clears the way for the illegal settlers to evict at least three Palestinian families from their homes over the next two or three days. Their homes will thereafter be occupied by Jewish settler families. Although Israel annexed the city of Jerusalem in 1967, that move was illegal in international law and is not recognised. Jewish settlements and settler activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, which include East Jerusalem and the West Bank, are also illegal under international law.
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