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Loading ...Imagine yourself immersed in a peaceful dream, in your warm bed, your siblings somberly sleeping in the room next to you… when you’re startled awake with a gun pointed at your face and policemen dragging your kicking and screaming mother onto the cold pavement outside. They’re screaming at you to get up and do as they say, telling you that the house you’ve lived in your entire life is not yours.
Early this morning, two Palestinian families were forced to endure this terror when they were violently evicted from their homes in East Jerusalem.
The Al-Ghawe and Hannoun families awoke before dawn to Israeli police smashing through their windows.1 The families of over fifty people and many children were forcibly removed from their beds at gunpoint and were not given a chance to take their belongings, while being taunted that they were “not in Palestine anymore.” 2 At one point, Israeli forces were shouting at an elderly Palestinian woman and attacked a Palestinian man who tried to intervene.3
Later that day, a truck was used to remove the families’ belongings before Israeli settlers arrived to move into the homes.4
Aside from the illegality of moving settlers into the occupied territory, Israel has repeatedly promised the United States that “home demolitions, home evictions and other provocations against Palestinian Jerusalemites would be stopped.”5 Currently, about 28 families residing in Sheikh Jarrah are facing eviction.6
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the homes belonged to Israel, despite the families living there since 1956. Their home neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah was established by the United Nations and Jordanian government as a shelter for Palestinians displaced after the War of 1948.7
1 Katherine Orwell, “Two Palestinian Families Forcibly Evicted from their Houses,” IMEMC.
2 Al Jazeera, “Israel Evicts Two Palestinian Families,” August 2, 2009.
3 4 Orwell.
5 Ben Hubbard, “Jerusalem: Two Palestinian Families Evicted,” Newser.
6 7 Orwell.
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Israel made 700,000 Palestinians leave their homes in 1948. I don’t think they will ever stop now.
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totally wrong I’m….I’m speechless.