The court-ordered eviction warrants handed down by the settler organization Nahalat Shimon International to two Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah on Tuesday were based on forged documents, Fatah official in charge of Jerusalem Affairs Hatem Abdul Qader said.
"The Israeli High Court of Justice previously accredited forged documents issued by this [Nahalat Shimon International] society and approved its ownership of the lands the homes are built on," Abdul Qader told Ma'an.
"The society's lawyer is sending out circular warrants to residents, ordering them to evacuate their homes," he added, alleging that all the land ownership documents previously used by the organizations to evict other families in the neighborhood are counterfeit.
The Fatah official said the latest families faced with eviction, the Dajani and Daoudi families, will file a petition at the High Court of Justice to overturn the eviction warrants on the basis that they were approved on forged documents.
"The Nahalat Shimon society is supported by the Israeli government in its work toward building a settlement neighborhood in the area," Abdul Qader said.
Israeli NGO Ir Amin said in a 2009 report that the settler-related real estate organization "plan[s] to demolish the existing residential structures [in Sheikh Jarrah] and evict hundreds of Palestinian residents in order to clear the way for a new Israeli settlement: Shimon HaTzadik [Simon the Just]."
The structures in question are 28 Palestinian homes, currently housing descendants of 27 Palestinian families, who were offered housing by UNWRA and the Jordanian Ministry of Development in 1956, in exchange for their refugee baskets. The Jordanian government had told the families that within three years, the deeds would be transferred into their names if the owners did not reclaim the land, pursuant to Jordan's Enemy Property Law. Despite no claims within the stipulated period, the deeds were not passed on to the current tenants... Full story
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