Israel is planning to forcibly displace the Palestinian Salem family and give their home that they have lived in since 1951 to illegal Israeli settlers. aljazeera.com/features/2022/…
Fatma Salem, 69, was born in the home that is currently being stolen from her by an Israeli settler named Yonatan Yosef, a far-right member of the Jerusalem Municipality.
The residence in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah is home to 11 Salem family members, including Fatma’s three sons and four grandchildren, who have also lived in the home their entire lives.
Yosef, the settler claiming the Salem family home as his own, is one of many Israeli settlers illegally present in East Jerusalem attempting to expel Palestinians from their homes.
In full support of the settlers’ illegal takeover, Israel has made their ethnic cleansing intentions very clear.
After delivering the Salem family an “eviction” notice in December, Jerusalem mayor Aryeh King declared, “Soon there will be a neighborhood for Jews here, thank God.”
The Salem family's forced expulsion was slated to take place on December 29 but was temporarily halted by an Israeli court on December 23. It's now set to take place at an unspecified date this month, with the family unable to make further appeals.
Many Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are resisting similar displacement efforts.
These families have called on the international community to demand an immediate stop to Israeli ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism.
These families have called on the international community to demand an immediate stop to Israeli ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism.
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