OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — A
Palestinian family evicted from their home, in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City,
following a decades-long legal battle were ordered to pay
Israel Police and
Israeli settlers tens of thousands of shekels to cover the costs of the
eviction, Haaretz reported.
اضافة اعلان
The Sub Laban family was evicted
from their home because the home was owned by Jews before 1948. Israeli
law allows Jews to claim property that was left prior to 1948, but denies
Palestinians from doing the same in lands that are now part of Israel.
Nora Gheith Sub Laban, the family
matriarch, had been living in the house since she was born there in 1955. The
family have fought multiple lawsuits since the 1980s seeking to have them
removed from the property. Thirteen years ago, the state ordered that the house
be moved to the ownership of a
Jewish community trust (Hekdesh) that was controlled
by right-wing activists. The last eviction order had been issued earlier this
summer.
In July, Nora and her husband Mustafa were
ordered to evacuate the house. At about 6 A.M. one morning, a large police
force blocked off the whole area and about 20
police officers broke into the house and extracted Mustafa and six left-wing Israeli activists that stayed
with him. Nora was away receiving medical treatment at the time of the
eviction.
To pay for the crimes committed against
them
In a letter the family received ten days
ago, they were told they would need to pay for 160 hours of policing at 104.5
shekels per hour, which totals at 17,187 shekels ($4,613). The family was also
ordered to pay more than 17,000 shekels to the company that carried out the
eviction. This is on top of a 13,000 shekel debt the family owes for legal
expenses to the
Israeli settlers who brought about their eviction.
"To ask
victims of war crimes to pay
for the crimes committed against them is an entirely new level of cruelty from
the
Israeli apartheid regime," says Rafat, Nora and Mustafa's son.
"How can Israelis continue to justify this oppression? How can the
international community and the world keep being silent? We are tired and can't
take this anymore," he added.
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