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The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCCER) reported that on Wednesday the Israeli police handed a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem an order to pay 13.000 NIS for the expenses of their expulsion from their home.
Forced To Live In The Street –
Members of Majed Hannoun family, from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, were forced out of their home last year and were replaced by fundamentalist Jewish settlers.
But now, the settler-run Jerusalem Municipality is asking the family to pay 13.000 NIS for the expense of the workers who removed them from their homes, and for equipment the municipality used during the evacuation. The Research and Documentation Unit at the JCCER reported that two other families who were also forced out of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah last year fear the same measure will be taken against them.
The families of Maher Hannoun and Abdul-Fattah Al Ghawi were forced out of their homes and fundamentalist settlers threw their furniture and belongings into the street. The Jerusalem municipality later moved the furniture to a square in front of the City Hall building in Sheikh Jarrah.
The two families are now living in tents and fear that Israel will also attempt to make them pay the expenses of their evacuation. The Jerusalem Municipality has repeatedly removed the tents and has tried to force the residents out of Sheikh Jarakh.
This issue comes amidst ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinian natives of Jerusalem, and amidst ongoing settlement construction and expansion in the city and around it.
This is also part of Israel’s policy to demolish Arab and Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem.
See also http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58289