Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank
SEVENTY cross-party MPs have condemned the attempted eviction of a Palestinian family from their East Jerusalem home by a “charity.”
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a registered charity in Britain, yet campaigners allege that it has funnelled donations into the displacement of Palestinians.
The organisation is behind a 30-year drive to evict the Sumarin family from their home in Silwan, a Jerusalem neighbourhood just south of the Old City’s walls that is the site of the City of David.
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
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING