Palestinian family under threat of eviction by settlers

Aviv Tatarsky
Date: 
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Source: 
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The State of Israel has been trying to expel the Sub Laban family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem for the past 35 years. During the first 30 years of its attempts, it was the Custodian General who did the job; since 2010 it has been the “Ateret Cohanim” settler NGO. The family went through exhausting legal procedures until last year when the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ruled that the family had lost its protected tenant sta...read more