01-12-09 / Jewish settlers occupy Al-Kurd home in Jerusalem

Jerusalem Maan A group of Israeli settlers accompanied by armed Israeli occupation forces occupied the sealed house of Rifka Al-Kurd in Sheikh Jarrah at 10am on Tuesday.

Before surrounding and overrunning the Al-Kurd home, the settlers reportedly produced a court order which gave consent to the settlers take-over of the house.

The family was not present inside the locked up house, in compliance with a court order issued by the Israeli court prohibiting their entry into the home. On Sunday, an appeal by the Al-Kurd family to return to their home was turned down an Israeli magistrates court.

The latest incident follows a long line of assault and forced entry into the Al-Kurd home. On Wednesday, settlers reportedly threatened and assaulted members of the Al-Kurd family as they stormed the home, before Israeli police intervened.

A similar incident was also reported in early November, in which 30 settlers invaded the same house.

The Coalition for Jerusalem, a Palestinian direct-action group, released a statement condemning the most recent settler take-over of the Al-Kurd home, highlighting that The law, legal system, political institution and settler organizations in Israel act in total harmony in their disregard to International law Today's take-over proves again that the colonization of the occupied Palestinian territory continues unabated.

In early August, Israeli police forced more than 50 members of two Palestinian families, including the Al-Kurds, from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and allowed Israeli settlers to move in. The evictions of the families went forward despite near-universal condemnation from the international community, including Israels closest ally, the US.

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[KurdeLibanon47]

nice surname al-kurd is he kurdish ?

[jghgfghj]

if israel keeps pushing and keeps on kicking palastinians out of thier land, where would they go?

[chonitin]

@72Yonatan since you don't give dates, names, and specifics all you're doing is ranting and more likely liying. The fact can be seen here. Those israeli bitches are stealing the property of others in a most shameless way, and with violence. Sons of bitches.

[72Yonatan]

Obviously, the courts favor Arabs in Israel, so there must have been clear evidence that compelled the judge to make an eviction. It takes years to evict squatters from land that was legally sold to Jews by fleeing Armenians who were pushed out by Arabs, and other similar sordid situations. It is known that the formerly Yemenite Jewish neighborhood was taken over by Arabs who were not the owners in 1948. So tell us the whole story, and we will decide if this is justice or not.

[Ookiewonderslug]

Why is Israel allowed to be a racist country and all the other countries are bad guys if they have racist laws?

[mrbubetube]

Why are they attacking Jewish people again?  Don't they have anything better to do? They leave the Jews with NO CHOICE but to defend themelves, and then they wonder why they get attacked and arrested by the IDF. When is the HATE going to stop?

[Nohminon]

Sollution here. Nuke the fucking liveing shit out of Israel, Set up the camps in germany and do what hitler failed to do. You dont have to be a nazi to hate the zionists (yes zionists) not jews. They are the true fucking scum of the world and should all be put out with no fucking trial.

[Thewildwolf79]

fuck jewish people scum on earth.. thieves monkies thats why everybody hate them

[zzap84]

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[AryanMithra]

@ThaPacsta Yeah, we'll see about that, fucking gypsy, not even worthy to be called nigger.