OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Hours pass heavily for the Jerusalemite Salem Ghaith from the town of Silwan after Israeli occupation police asked him to evacuate his home overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque next Tuesday in order to be given to settlers.
Israeli occupation police forces stormed the home of the Jerusalemite Salem Ghaith in the Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and ordered him to evacuate his house by December 10.
Last September, the so-called Israeli Supreme Court approved the eviction of the Ghaith family from their property in Silwan in favor of the settlers, claiming “ownership of the land on which the building is located.”
The family has been fighting in Israeli courts since 2015 in defense of their property, in which they have lived since 1979. It consists of two floors and is home to 10 people.
The Israeli Ateret Cohanim Association claims that five dunums and 200 square meters of land in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood belonged to Jews from Yemen in 1881.
About 87 families live in the neighborhood, about 600-680 people, all of whom are facing judicial decisions and evacuation notices.
