Israeli authorities on Tuesday evicted a Palestinian family from their contested apartment in Jerusalem's Old City, the family said, capping a decades-long legal battle that has come to symbolize conflicting claims to the holy city.
Activists say the Ghaith-Sub Laban family's eviction is part of a wider trend of Israeli settlers, backed by the government, encroaching on Palestinian neighbourhoods and cementing Israeli control by seizing property in east Jerusalem. Israel describes it as a simple battle over real estate, with settlers claiming the family are squatters in an apartment formerly owned by Jews.
"When we got back in front of the house, we faced the new reality that our main entrance had been closed and we don't have the right to use it anymore," he said. "They took the key and changed the lock." Israel considers the entire city its capital, while the Palestinian seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future independent state.
"We decided to take it to remember that we lived here, our children grew up here, and that we are looking forward to returning to the house," said Ahmad. An Israeli law passed after the annexation of east Jerusalem allows Jews to reclaim properties that were Jewish before the formation of the Israeli state in 1948. Jordan controlled the area between 1948 and the 1967 war.
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