The deadline set by the Israeli Court to evacuate four Jerusalemite families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem in favor of settlers who claim ownership of the land ends today, Sunday.

The families of Al-Kurd, al-Qasim, al-Jauni, and Iskafi live in a state of intense fear and anticipation with the end of the date of their eviction and forced displacement from their homes today.

The Jerusalemite activist in the Sheikh Jarrah Saleh Diab neighborhood told Safa that the Supreme Court of Israel will hold a session this morning to consider the appeal of the decision to evacuate families, and the suggestions it made regarding the case.

He pointed out that the deadline set by the Israeli court to evacuate families ends today, and there are great concerns that the Israeli police will implement the decision.

Diab stated that 550 citizens are threatened with eviction and displacement from their homes during the coming period, as 2,200 are threatened with complete eviction.

In his turn, the Jerusalemite, Mohammad Al-Sabbagh said: "We will go to the court in the session on the first four houses in order to support their owners, and the session will begin at eleven in the morning, and we expect either there will be a decision to evacuate immediately or extend the consideration of the case."

“Based on the court’s decision, we will decide the next steps, but we will intensify our presence in the neighborhood to protect the homes from any attempt by settlers to seize them," he added.

Since 1972, the people of Sheikh Jarrah have faced an Israeli plan to displace them and build a settlement on the rubble of their homes, claiming that the land on which their homes were built by the Jordanian government was previously leased to Jewish families.

500 Jerusalemites living in 28 homes in the Shaikh Jarrah neighborhood are threatened with displacement at the hands of settlement associations after years of collusion with the Israeli courts, which recently issued a decision against the aforementioned seven families, despite the fact that the neighborhood residents are the actual and legal owners of the land.

The threatened families continue to resist in order to face eviction orders from their homes and lands that they owned based on an agreement concluded in 1965 between the Jordanian government and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Settler groups say they owned the land on which the Palestinian homes were built, before 1948, which is a claim that residents refute.

Source : Safa