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Jewish Settlers Force Way Into East Jerusalem Home, Evict Arab Family
First Posted: 11- 3-09 02:07 PM | Updated: 11- 3-09 03:09 PM
JERUSALEM (AP) Jewish settlers forced their way into a disputed
house in east Jerusalem on Tuesday, using hired guards to evict an
elderly Palestinian woman and tossing the other residents' belongings
into the rain-swept yard.
The settlers displayed what they said was a court order granting them
ownership of the simple one-story building. Human rights groups said
the takeover was a push by Jewish settlers to expand their presence in
east Jerusalem.
An elderly Palestinian woman gestures as she sits with her belongings
in front of a disputed house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of
Sheik Jarrah, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Jewish settlers claiming
ownership forced their way into a disputed house in east Jerusalem on
Tuesday, using hired guards to evict an elderly Palestinian woman and
tossing the belongings of the 29 other residents into the rain,
witnesses said.
Sovereignty over the traditionally Arab sector is one of the most
explosive issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel captured the area in the 1967 Mideast war and immediately
annexed it a move recognized by no other country. The Palestinians
consider east Jerusalem the capital of their hoped-for state.
Palestinians and their Israeli supporters clashed with the Jewish
settlers after they took over the building, and police intervened to
restore calm, arresting one of the Israeli protesters, a police
spokesman said.
Similar clashes have broken out over nearby buildings in recent
months.
"It's clear to me that this is another case of settlers taking the law
into their own hands," said Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann of Rabbis for Human
Rights, an Israeli group that opposes Palestinian home evictions and
demolitions.
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"It's just another step-by-step way of pushing them (the Palestinians)
out," he said.
Grenimann said 29 members of the al-Kurd family lived in the house
evicted on Tuesday. Some of them had settled there after they were
evicted from another house in the same neighborhood, following the
Israeli Supreme Court's decision to uphold the settlers' claim to the
ownership of that building.
Conflicting claims and religious tensions make east Jerusalem which
includes the Old City, with key holy sites revered by Muslims, Jews
and Christians a frequent flashpoint.
Palestinians want to make it their future capital, while Israel
insists on retaining control of the whole city.
Israel has built homes for more than 180,000 Jews in new east
Jerusalem neighborhoods since the 1967 annexation.
The U.S. and others have criticized Israeli settlement in east
Jerusalem and urged Israel to stop evicting Palestinians and
demolishing their homes there, saying such moves disrupt peace
efforts. |
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