Two weeks after state-backed Israeli settlers forcibly evicted the Palestinian family of Sub Laban from their 70-year home in Aqabat al-Khaldia neighborhood in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israeli settlers this morning threw out the furniture of the Palestinian family out of their home to make sure they will not be able to return.
Noura Sub Laban, the house owner, and activists who were standing in solidarity with her this morning outside her home were also evicted from the area by Israeli police and settlers.
Israeli occupation forces also arrested Rafat Sub Laban, one of the inhabitants of the house, as they dispersed Noura and the rest of the activists from the vicinity of the house, now occupied by Israeli Jewish settlers.
On July 11, Israeli settlers seized the family house of Sub Laban in the Old City in Jerusalem after breaking into it under the protection of Israeli forces and forcibly evacuated its owners.
Several years ago, Israeli settlers seized an upper part of the building, while the house of the Sub Laban family remained in the middle of the building, which was surrounded by settlements on all sides.
The family rented the house in 1953 from the Kingdom of Jordan, and was granted protected lease rights, but after the occupation of Jerusalem, it was placed under the management of the so-called Custodian of Absentee Properties, claiming that its ownership belonged to the Jews, which was categorically denied by the family.
In 2016, the Israeli occupation courts prevented members of the Jerusalemite Sub Laban family, Raafat, Ahmed, his wife and children, and their sister, from living inside the house, which led to the dispersal of the family.
