The Israeli police forcibly evicted early Tuesday morning a Palestinian family from their house in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah claiming the property belongs to Israeli settlers.
The PIC reporter affirmed that Israeli police and border forces stormed in large numbers the neighborhood at dawn time and forcibly evacuated the Shamasna family members and they started to move their furniture and belongings into a truck.
Accompanied by police a group of settlers entered the evacuated home and locked its doors.
Shamasna family are composed of ten members including an elderly man his wife and six children.
During the eviction owner of the house Haj Ayoub Shamasna 82 shouted “This is the true face of occupation. This is the way of the racist (Israeli) government.”
“The soldiers violently stormed the house without any prior notice before throwing all our belongings in the street” he told PIC reporter.
Following the eviction the family remained outside the house along with a number of peace activists.
Shamasna family who were living in the house since 1964 said the evacuation order is illegal and based on fake documents handed over by Israeli settlers to an Israeli court.
Dozens of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are also threatened with eviction as Israeli occupation authorities plan to establish new settlement outposts in the area.
