APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jerusalem - 18 April 2022. Palestinian Salem family threatened with eviction from their home at Sheikh Jarrah sit inside thier home, in Jerusalem.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jerusalem - 18 April 2022. Palestinian Salem family threatened with eviction from their home at Sheikh Jarrah sit inside thier home, in Jerusalem. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Ibrahim Salem. STORYLINE: The Israeli Magistrate Court in Jerusalem decided today that an earlier decision to freeze the eviction of the Palestinian Salem family from its home in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem for the benefit of Israeli settlers will continue to apply. WAFA correspondent said that the court decided to continue the freeze order after accepting an appeal by the family against the intended eviction by Israeli settler groups from the home it has lived in for seven decades. The judge also decided to return the file to the so-called execution and procedure judge to hold an expanded discussion of the case, stressing that there is a flaw in the procedures presented by the settlers that must be reconsidered, according to Nasser Qous, an activist, who told WAFA that this means possible dismissal of the whole case. Majed Ghanayem, the lawyer for the Salem family, confirmed to WAFA the court’s decision to continue to freeze the eviction order until a final decision is issued in the near future. While the Magistrate Court was deliberating the case, human rights activists organized a sit-in in front of the courthouse in solidarity with the Salem family and the residents of Sheikh Jarrah, and against Israeli plans to displace the Palestinian families from the occupied city, and against the double standards of the Israeli law in dealings between Jews and Palestinians. The court froze the eviction of the Salem family from its home in February after the so-called Israeli Execution and Collection Authority issued an order last January to implement a decision to
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