Today, the Israeli Police forcibly evicted the Kirresh family, a family of eight including two children, from their home in the Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem, and transferred the property to an Israeli settler organization. The Kirresh family has been living on this property since the 1930s.
on September 15, 2016For my entire life, 27 years, I have lived with the threat that I will be permanently evicted from my home in the Old City of Jerusalem. It’s a beautiful location, just 200 yards from the Dome of the Rock and offering an absolutely stunning view of the Old City’s holy sites. We have paid our rent. We have been good tenants. We have tried all legal means, including a Dec. 3 protest march, to stay in our home.
on January 24, 2016The Sub Labans have lived in their house in occupied East Jerusalem since 1953. Now they say they're in danger of being evicted because Israeli settlers want their home. AJ+ is a global news community for the connected generation. We highlight human struggles and achievements, empower impassioned voices, and challenge the status quo.
on January 20, 2016The Palestinian residents of the Khaldiyya Ascent, a narrow cobblestone alley in Jerusalem’s walled Old City, have for decades lived in tiny, crammed apartments with high, moldy ceilings and peeling paint. Now, at least seven of these families face eviction threats by Jewish organizations reclaiming properties they owned before Israel was established in 1948.
on January 14, 2016The Sub Laban family faces continued harassment by Israeli settlers. Nora Sub Laban and her family found several holes in one of the walls in their house. In this video you see an Israeli settler next door drilling a hole into their wall while being filmed.
on January 6, 2016Ahmad Sub-Laban's family has lived for decades under threat of eviction from their home overlooking the gold-topped Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City. The experience inspired the 37-year-old Palestinian father of two to become a researcher for groups fighting attempts by Jewish settlers to move into properties in the city's central Arab areas.
on December 23, 2015Supreme court judges in Israel are considering an appeal from a Palestinian family who are being threatened with eviction. The family lives close to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, also known as the Temple Mount to Jews, in Jerusalem's old city. Palestinians believe it is an attempt to increase Jewish presence in occupied East Jerusalem.
on December 13, 2015Israeli settlers on Thursday prevented a Palestinian family from entering their home in the Batan al-Hawa area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, a local organization said. Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Israeli settlers who live in the area prevented Rania Abu Nab and her four children, aged 4 to 14-years-old, from entering the home, before Israeli police arrived at the scene reportedly in support of the settlers.
on October 29, 2015At least nine Palestinians were left homeless on Monday after settlers escorted by Israeli security personnel forcibly evicted them from their homes in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The Silwan-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center said a large group of Israeli border police and officers escorted staff from the far-right Israeli Ateret Cohanim organization...
on October 19, 2015