JERUSALEM: Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday set the eviction of four Palestinian families from the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Jewish settler groups have sought to seize control.
Justice Isaac Amit, in a ruling by a three-judge panel, wrote the families would be recognized as defended tenants and would pay a Jewish settler group an emblematic periodic rent of shekels ( about$ 740) “ until a determination of. land rights”.
The four families in adjoined east Jerusalem were at the heart of clashes that helped spark the 11- day war last May between Israel and fortified groups in the Gaza Strip.
Israel adjoined east Jerusalem — which Palestinians claim as their unborn capital — following the 1967 Six-Day War, a move not recognized by the utmost of the transnational community.
Sheikh Jarrah has come to a symbol of Palestinian resistance against Israeli control of Jerusalem.
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The Palestinian families had been seeking a right to appeal a lower court decision that Jewish settlers possessed the land. In Tuesday’s ruling, two of the three judges granted that right to appeal.
“ The decision to allow them to appeal is just a primary decision,” said advocacy fellow Gaal Yanovski at Ir Amim, a Jerusalem group opposed to agreements. “ Two of the three judges decided they’re indurating the eviction until there will be a land agreement of title.”
Tuesday’s decision was part of a times-long legal battle waged by Palestinian families, defying sweats by Jewish Israeli organizations to reclaim property possessed by Jews in east Jerusalem previous to Israel’s founding in 1948.
families, in exchange for those residers agreeing to relinquish their United Nations exile status.
Still, the land rights of the residers weren’t recorded by the Jordanian authorities before the 1967 conflict.
Jewish groups claimed the property shortly after, using an Israeli law that allows Jews, but not Palestinians, to recover Jerusalem property lost in the 1948 war to produce Israel.
In August, the families refused a “ concession” proposed by Israel’s top court, in which they would be recognized as defended tenants in exchange for recognizing Israeli power of their homes.
The new ruling leaves the final status of the property open to a decision by an office within Israel’s Ministry of Justice, Yanovski said.
Three Palestinians killed
Three Palestinians were killed on Tuesday by Israeli forces in two separate incidents in the enthralled West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Ammar Shafiq Abu Afifa was killed by “ Israeli occupation forces shooting at him near the city of Beit Fajar”, the ministry said late in the autumn.
The Israeli army didn’t incontinently note when asked by AFP.
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Afifa was an occupant of the Al-Aroub exile camp north of Hebron in the enthralled West Bank, the sanctioned Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Independently, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians before dawn on Tuesday after coming under fire during an arrest raid in the northern West Bank, Israeli border police and Palestinian health authorities said.
