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FAMILIES occupying their demolition-bound estate hailed a temporary reprieve yesterday, after a judge adjourned a developer’s call for an eviction order until next week.
Court papers were issued last week to evict the group of former residents, whose homes are set to be turned into posh flats.
Property company Annington snapped up the former army barracks from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1996, and since 2007 it has been leased by the Notting Hill Housing Trust for social housing.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
