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United Nations-appointed Independent Human Rights Experts has condemned the forced eviction and displacement of Palestinian families in east Jerusalem by Israeli Police, warning the operations may amount to a war crime of forcible transfer.
In a statement issued by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), the experts said it was “deeply shocking and heartbreaking” to see an elderly Palestinian couple, Nora Ghaith and Mustafa Sub Laban, evicted from their family home where they lived all their lives and raised their children.
“As we have repeatedly said, forced evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem are part of Israel’s apartheid machinery at work, designed to consolidate Jewish ownership of Jerusalem and racially dominate the city’s population,” the experts, including Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, said.
According to the news release, Israeli Police evicted Nora Ghaith and Mustafa Sub Laban from their home in the Old City of Jerusalem in the early hours of 11 July.
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The Ghaith-Sub Laban family, who had a protected lease on the house since 1953, reportedly faced constant harassment and lawsuits from Israeli authorities and settlers seeking to seize their home under an inherently discriminatory law that applies to Palestinians in east Jerusalem, the release added.
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