Ahlam was a guest of the al-Kurd family when on the morning of 3 November 2009 Israeli settlers burst in and seized part of the building. Contrary to eyewitness accounts, the police claim the 21-year-old attacked them.
From the Givon prison in Ramle where Ms. Mohsen is currently awaiting deportation she reported that: “The Israeli police were violently pushing an elderly Palestinian woman. So I stepped in front of them. They told me to move and when I refused they started forcefully pushing me. Then they grabbed me and carried me into a police van. While I was waiting at the Israeli Ministry of Interior, the police officers kept telling each other that I was a ‘dirty Arab’ and introducing me as 'Osama Bin Laden’s sister'. One of them, threatened to ‘break my head’. None of the other non-violent demonstrators were targeted; the way they treated me, it’s obvious that I was arrested because I’m of Arab descent.”
The 40 settlers, accompanied by private armed security and Israeli police forces, entered a section of the home, threw out the family’s belongings and locked themselves in.
The take-over came after an appeal submitted by the family's lawyer was rejected by the District Court. In their appeal, the Palestinian family was challenging an earlier court decision that deemed a section of the house illegal and ordered that the keys be given to settlers. The settlers proceeded to enter the house, while the court did not grant them the right to enter the property.
The al-Kurd home was built in 1956. An addition to the house was built 10 years ago, but the family was not allowed to inhabit the section because the municipality refused to grant them a building permit. Visibly unequal laws are used to make it possible for settlers to move into a home where it was declared illegal for Palestinian residents to inhabit. The Israeli authorities exercise their abilities to demolish and evict Palestinian residents, while ignoring building violations from the Israeli population in East Jerusalem.
The al-Kurds have become the fourth Sheikh Jarrah family whose house has been occupied by settlers in the last year. So far, 60 people have been left homeless. In total, 28 families living in the Karm Al- Ja'ouni neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, located directly north of the
Old City, face imminent eviction from their homes.
See video:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#
Ahlam is imprisoned in the Givon prison in Ramle. She is available for
interviews.
Please contact:
Ahlam Mohsen +972.548.845.924
Sasha Solanas, ISM Media office +972.54.903.2981
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Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteTruly sickening!
ReplyDelete"I'll break YOUR head."
ReplyDeleteThe time is rapidly approaching for the rest of the world to treat Israelis as they do Palestinians. And since zionists are directly behind missing hundreds of billions/trillions their property around the world should be seized and their asses thrown out in the street. It would be most prudent to start with all dual citizens in government, politics and the military. After watching the lies and deceit of the decades long "Piece Process' (we steel a piece here, there and soon will own it all!)and the continued criminal acts of 'settlers' it is time for the gloves to come off-after all treating Palestinians worse than the NAZIS treated the Jews sets a new standard of how to deal with them. And by the way the Fort Hood area in Texas holds one of the largest concentrations of MOSSAD agents in the USA-the other being DC and Florida.
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i dont get it. if the israelis are not allowed to build on teh "disputed" lands, then why are the palestinians allowed to?
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ReplyDeleteThe West Bank and E. Jerusalem are not "disputed". According to the U.N. and international law they belong to the Palestinians. Seizing land and evicting residents is criminal. Criminality is not sanctioned under the rubric of "dispute", otherwise carjackers could claim that their actions are morally justified as "dispute settlement".
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