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Israeli police yesterday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the occupied area of East Jerusalem in an action before dawn, writes the British daily Metro.
Dozens of officers landed at the Sheikh Jarrah area house, which has been a hotbed of clashes in 2021, forcibly evacuating residents and then destroying it.
About 15 of its residents were evacuated to witness the complete destruction of the house, in acts dubbed a “war crime” by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
A family member named Mahmoud Salhiyeh, had climbed to the roof of the house to protect the settlement where he had lived for decades.
In the tense situation he threatened to set fire to both himself and the building, saying: “We are not leaving anymore, we have nowhere to go. You deported us once in 1948. “
“We will either die in our own house or we will live. “We are not leaving.”
Residents stood from yesterday around the house and above it, until police officers in heavy clothing arrived on Wednesday.
Some of the relatives, including a nine-year-old girl, were beaten, writes the British woman The Guardian, while other reports said police used rubber bullets.
Officers reportedly arrested at least 20 people including five members of the Salhiyeh family.
Israel considers all of Jerusalem as cities of the country but Palestine claims the birth of the city as the capital of its future state.
The family reportedly had no plans to relocate and could not be contacted by relatives.
Police insisted they had offered several cases to hand over the land following the evacuation order, according to them in 2017.
Israeli authorities said they were enforcing a court order for “eviction from the illegal building, built on the site planned for a school.”
International activists witnessed the devastation and described it as “shocking”.
“You see life and everything you have to be destroyed before your eyes,” they said Metro.co.uk
Mr Abbas urged Washington to “force the Israeli government to end its policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people”, according to a statement from the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
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