ZIONISTS DEMOLISH FIVE PALESTINIAN STEEL STRUCTURES EAST OF JERUSALEM
A large group of Israeli occupation forces raided the town after midnight and surrounded steel structures belonging to the Bedouin al-Jahalin community, Palestine’s Ma’an News Agency reported as quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
A spokesman of the al-Jahalin tribe council Sami Abu Ghaliya told Ma’an, Israeli occupation soldiers forcibly evicted five families from the structures, leaving 55 people homeless.
The demolitions took place without giving residents time to gather their belongings.
The structures housed a greengrocers and a car wash which provided the main source of income for the community.
“They want to displace us and leave us homeless as they did to us in the Nakba of 1948 and the Naksa of 1967,” Abu Ghaliya said.
“We have been living on this land since more than 60 years,” he stressed out.
The Zionist entity is planning to displace the al-Jahalin tribe to build part of its separation wall in the area, a spokesman of the Palestinian youth movement in East Jerusalem, Hani Halabiyya, told Ma’an.
In the 1950s, the al-Jahalin community was forcibly displaced from its ancestral home in the Negev desert and resettled east of Jerusalem. (T/P03/E01)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
