Israeli court to Al-Kurd family: Settlers will stay in your home

December 2, 2009

Jerusalem – Ma’an - The Israeli Central Court heard and rejected Wednesday the petition of the Al-Kurd family seeking the eviction of Israeli settlers from their home.

The home, vacant following a court order demanding the Al-Kurds leave the building following a demolition order from Israel's Jerusalem municipality, was taken over by Israeli settlers on Tuesday Wednesday, and denied the plea replied on Wednesday to the petition of Al-Kurd family from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood where they called the Israeli court to issue an order to evacuate the settlers from their own home that was dominated by the settlers on Tuesday.

Jerusalem affairs official with Fatah Hatem Abdel Qader said the decision came only hours after the court heard the petition from the Al-Kurd family lawyers Hosni Abu Hassanein and Sami Irshid, then the lawyers with the settler group.

Abdul Qader told Ma'an the decision was "weird" since the home was slated for demolition by the Jerusalem municipality. He accused the courts of siding with settlers rather than the law.

A video from the International Solidarity Movement captured the settlers moving into the home, and Umm Al-Kurd confronting some of the men and asking, in Arabic, for them to "get outside," and "walk out of here."