Reuters AMIR COHEN
The Israeli Central Court rejected the appeal submitted by 4 Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, demanding a halt to evicting their homes for the benefit of Israeli settlers.
The families ’lawyer, Sami Arsheed, told the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem that“ the District Court issued its decision rejecting the appeal against the Magistrate’s Court’s decision to evict the families of Iskafi, the Kurds, al-Jauni, and al-Qasim from their homes for the benefit of the settlers, a week after the appeal hearing submitted by the residents The neighborhood, and the families were given until the second of next May to implement the eviction decision.
He added, “Settler bodies claim ownership of the land on which the real estate properties of the people are built in the Karam al-Jaouni neighborhood in Sheikh Jarrah, and they were registered in 1972, and the Magistrate’s Court issued a decision to evacuate the aforementioned families last November, and the families submitted their appeal to the Central Court and it was rejected today. Going to the Supreme Court to appeal the decision again. “
Source: “Jerusalem”