The Israeli police on Wednesday seized a Palestinian house south of al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem after forcing its residents to leave and gave it to Israeli settlers.
According to Wafa Israeli municipality crews escorted by an armed force in the early morning hours stormed Silwan town and ordered the evacuation of a Palestinian house in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood.
The news agency said that the house was later given to an Israeli settler group in Jerusalem.
Wadi Hilweh Infromation Center said that the house was inhabited by the family of the Palestinian citizen Jawad Abu Sneineh who has been recently arrested and banned from entering Jerusalem for refusing to give up his house.
Many settler groups have been lately able to illegally seize Palestinian buildings in Batn al-Hawa and turn them into settler outposts in an attempt to Judaize the Arab neighborhood completely.
