“My tears and all my crying is just sadness for losing my home, I'm parting with my entire life and all my memories that are in this house. She accused Israel of trying to “ethnically cleanse” the area of Palestinians and vowed to continue fighting the eviction. Nora Ghaith-Sub Laban, the family matriarch, said she was in the hospital when police arrived. Other settlers poured water down on family members from windows above. Jewish settlers also gathered outside, dancing and smiling as they stared at the distraught family. Several dozen protesters gathered and chanted “Occupation no more” at passersby outside the block of apartments as police stood by.
“They took the key and changed the lock.” “When we got back in front of the house, we faced the new reality that our main entrance had been closed and we don't have the right to use it anymore,” he said. Her son, Ahmad Sub-Laban, said the family was barred from reentering the premises.
Police officers came to Nora Ghaith-Sub Laban's apartment in Jerusalem's Old City early Tuesday morning, forced open the door and removed the family.
Israel describes the eviction as a simple battle over real estate, with settlers claiming the family was squatting in an apartment formerly owned by Jews. Israeli authorities evicted a Palestinian family from a contested apartment in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday, capping a decades-long legal battle that has come to symbolize the conflicting claims to the holy city.Īctivists say the Ghaith-Sub Laban family's removal is part of a wider trend of Israeli settlers encroaching on Palestinian neighborhoods with the government's backing and cementing Israeli control by seizing property in contested east Jerusalem.
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