Israeli troopers have forcibly evicted a Palestinian household after raiding their house in Sheikh Jarrah, reported Wafa information company.
Round a dozen law enforcement officials arrived on the Salhiya household’s home within the early hours of the morning, dragging 15 Palestinian residents exterior and proceeded to demolish the home with a bulldozer.
The transfer comes regardless of the worldwide neighborhood, together with the European Union, calling on Israel to permit the Salhiya household to stay, after Mahmoud Al-Salhiya threatened to set himself and his household on hearth in protest of the Israeli eviction order.
“We cannot depart. We’ll both stay or die. I will burn myself with gasoline,” Salhiya mentioned in a video that circulated on social media.
“The (Israeli) municipality desires to take away a household from their house so as to arrange faculties. Who’re the faculties for? Faculties for them, for the Jews,” he defined.
“Whoever approaches, I’ll burn the home which is stuffed with fuel pipes, and I’ll bomb the home with whoever is inside,” he warned.
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Israel to evict 400 Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]
Years-long makes an attempt by the household to have the order revoked have failed.
“As thieves within the night time, officers arrived to evict the Salhiya household into the freezing road. These are the lives of Palestinians in East Jerusalem,” mentioned Meretz parliamentarian, Mossi Raz, instantly following the eviction on Wednesday morning.
The Salhiya household was initially expelled from their home within the West Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ein Karem in 1948 through the Zionist ethnic cleaning of the village.
They purchased a brand new home within the Nineteen Fifties within the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, a few decade earlier than Israel occupied and annexed — illegally — the world. Now, the Israeli-run Jerusalem Municipality has expelled them, but once more.
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, launched an announcement following the Salhiya household eviction as we speak, demanding the US administration “to shoulder its duty and instantly intervene to cease these persevering with Israeli crimes in opposition to our folks in Jerusalem, particularly in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, who’re subjected to a coverage of racial discrimination that the world has by no means seen the like earlier than.”
He added: “The demolition, displacement and intimidation of the residents in Jerusalem that the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood is witnessing places the Biden administration and its obligations to the check, translating its phrases into actions, and this must be executed by placing strain on the Israeli occupation authorities to cease its coverage of ethnic cleaning in opposition to the Palestinian folks, and to spare the area extra stress and escalation.”
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