Israeli settlers to confiscate Palestinian home in J’lem

Israeli setters tried Monday to confiscate a Palestinian-owned home in the Old City in occupied Jerusalem.

The home’s owner Ahmed Sub Laban clarified that a group of settlers tried to storm his house accompanied with members of the Israeli immigration authority as a prelude to confiscate it.

Fortunately, Sub Laban’s 9-year-old son was in the home and refused to allow the settlers in.

The setters tried to storm the home after the family submitted an appeal against a court’s order that ruled in favor of the settlers. However, the settlers refused to wait for the court’s final decision and came into the home without the police's escort.

Sub Laban pointed out that his family rented the house since 1956 from the so-called ‘Jordan Custodian of Enemy Property (CEP)’.

Earlier, the Jewish organization Ateret Cohanim filed a lawsuit at the Israeli magistrate court to seize the property in 2010, and won it. Nevertheless, the family appealed the decision before the District Court, which is expected to release its final decision on May 31, 2015.

The researcher in settlements’ affairs Sub Laban said that a number of neighboring Palestinian-owned homes were also confiscated by Israeli settlers in the suburb.




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