Seventy MPs condemn attempted eviction of Palestinian family from East Jerusalem home by a ‘charity’
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.
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