Israel’s Supreme Court will make a compromise decision on the eviction of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, the Associated Press Agency reports. An early trial that threatened to turn around the eviction of Palestinian families was the cause of the 11-day war between the Palestinian group of Hamas and Israel.
The litigation of four Palestinian families and Jewish settlers concerns property rights ownership located in the area of Sheikh Jararh East Jerusalem. The proceedings for many years have passed the courts of all subordination instances. The final decision of the issue in the Supreme Court, previously scheduled for May, was transferred due to military clashes.
On the hearing in the case held on Monday, August 2, the Supreme Court of Israel offered two possible compromise to the parties. Palestinians were offered to gain a “protected” status giving a guarantee from eviction within two generations – Arab owners rejected this compromise.
In turn, the Jewish settlers did not arrange a second possible option, which provided for the recognition by the Palestinians of the very fact of registration in Israeli cadastors of their property in the hands of Jewish settlers, in exchange for acquiring similar status. Cause gave the parties a week to make a final decision.
The cause of the conflict was the right to restitution provided for by Israeli legislation. Jewish settlers insist that the Earth in East Jerusalem previously belonged to their ancestors who were forced to leave it due to the occupation of this part of the city of the Army of Jordan in 1948. Representatives of the Palestinian side insist that housing was provided to them in 1956 by Jordania and the Middle Eastern United Nations Agency for the help of Palestinian refugees and work organization “(Borp). While Israel, in fact, occupied this region in 1967, has no right to dispose of property and property of persons living in a given territory.
Total, according to international human rights agencies, about 1000 Palestinians living in East Jerusalem are under the threat of eviction.