News about the Israeli court’s extension of the decision to freeze the eviction of a Palestinian family from its East Jerusalem Sheikh Jarrah home hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Tuesday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that the Israeli Magistrate Court in Jerusalem decided 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.
They 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 added that this means possible dismissal of the whole case.
The papers said that Israeli forces razed about 10 donums of Palestinian-owned lands in the village of al-Jab’a, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
They added that the Israeli forces injured a Palestinian youth in the village of Zababdeh, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian-American Hala Gabriel, a production finance executive at the American TV and film production company (Netflix) described Israel as a racist colonial state that practices apartheid, as reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida.
“The dangers are in supporting violent, racist, colonial apartheid practiced by the Zionist state of Israel, under the auspices and claim that Russians and Europeans may have had some presence in Palestine thousands of years ago. It’s outrageous at best and criminal at worst,” she said in a tweet.
Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said that the Israeli authorities are set to reopen the Beit Hanoun crossing today.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)