JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli magistrate court in Jerusalem has ordered a Palestinian family to evacuate a small rented house adjacent to the al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City which the family has been living in for 25 years.
The al-Bakri family was ordered to evacuate the house before Sept. 4, 2014.
Sadiyya al-Bakri told Ma’an Tuesday that her family of 18 expects Israeli authorities to forcibly evacuate the family at any moment.
“The deadline we have been given has passed and so we expect to be evacuated at any moment. However, we refuse to leave the house we have been living in for several years,” al-Bakri said.
She added that her family used to pay rent to the Niaaji family, whom she described as a “protected tenant who has the right to rent the house.”
After that, the family started to pay the rent to the Israeli government’s Custodian of Absentee Properties. The agency, she said, claimed that the al-Bakri family isn’t a “protected tenant.”
Based on that claim, the Israeli judge ordered the family to evacuate the house.
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