Please sign and share this appeal on behalf of Fatmeh Adeeleh and her family; let the Israeli government know that there are people out there aware of its brutality by appealing to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: palestinematters/Stop-demolition-of--family-home-in-Abu-Dis_Appeal_3121.aspx ABU DIS NEIGHBORHOOD OF NIGHTMARES via Rima Najjar UPDATE [March 28, 2014] I went with colleagues this morning to visit Fatmeh Adeeleh, whose familys home is under notice of demolition. On Wednesday, the 26th, they had received the decision of the Israeli court, to whom they had been appealing: Demolition within 48 hours. The Israeli courts work hand in hand with the military, and very few stays, if any, are granted. Apparently there was room for one more appeal; they had to pay 30,000 shekels to activate it. They were told that a court session to look into the matter would be specified on April 1st. No one is expecting much, but they are hoping that at least there would be some interest in the press and among activists about it. _______________________ Yesterday [March 26, 2014], on campus, I heard that my colleague Fatmeh Adeeleh and her family had received a demolition order from the Israeli military for their home. It’s a four storey structure, adjacent to the apartheid wall. They rent the basement and live on the first floor. The rest is unfinished. They have been slowly building up for years. Next to them is the old Cliff Hotel in Abu Dis. The Israelis confiscated it and turned it into a military post after 1967. Now they are annexing it by routing the apartheid wall to include it on the Jerusalem side. Very early this morning I walked to my colleague’s neighborhood. It’s off the main street in Abu Dis. As you turn into the neighborhood, you see scrawled on a wall under the image of a skull and bones the words: “Neighborhood of Nightmares,” the nightmare being the Israeli forces stationed up the street on the mountain, as Abu Dis kids call it. I walked through this neighborhood, which was seemed peaceful enough early in the morning of March 27, 2014, but this neighborhood is the site of constant clashes between Abu Dis youth and the Israeli forces stationed here. The people living in this neighborhood have had their fill of tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and sound bombs. I was prevented from going to my friend’s home, so I found high ground and took pictures. I was also able to go on the roof of another house in the area and took even closer pictures. The battle regarding the demolition appears to still be going on in Israeli court even after the notice was issued yesterday. The decks are always stacked against Palestinians in any Israeli court, as their legal system works hand in hand with the military occupation, but the Israeli legal system is the only recourse. Tomorrow, after Friday noon prayers, the people of Abu Dis will be marching up to Fatmeh Adeeleh’s home in protest. _____________________ US/ISRAEL FRAMEWORK DOES NOT GUARANTEE PEACE. IT GUARANTEES A JEWISH- ZIONIST STATE WITH AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF JEWS Haaretz: Most land Israel sold for new homes in 2014 in West Bank or East Jerusalem **Israel Lands Authority Publishes Tenders to build 3,050 Settlement units in the first quarter of 2014 of which 55% are in the Occupied West Bank or East Jerusalem. ** Israel Plans to Build 208 New Units in the Settlement of Efrata Near Bethlelhem ____________________ ISRAEL & THE PRACTICE OF DEMOLISHING PALESTINIAN HOMES Since 1967 Israel has demolished more than 28,000 Palestinian homes, businesses, livestock facilities and other structures vital to Palestinian life and livelihood in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The motivation for demolishing these homes is purely political, and racially informed: to either drive the Palestinians out of the country altogether (the “quiet transfer”) or to confine the four million residents of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza to small, crowded, impoverished and disconnected enclaves. By such practices Israel effectively forecloses any viable Palestinian entity or the realization of Palestinian self-determination; it also solidifies permanent Israeli domination and illegal settlement expansion, de facto annexing the OPT. Taken against the background of Israel’s systematic destruction of more than 500 Palestinian villages, towns and urban neighborhoods in 1948 and after, the legal steps taken to alienate the Palestinian property from its lands, homes and properties subsequent to the 1948 war and its ongoing policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel – some 150,000 in number – residing in so-called “unrecognized villages and neighborhoods,” the picture that emerges is one of institutional racial discrimination and promulgated ethnic displacement - Adv. Emily Schaeffer (Michael Sfard Law Office), Jeff Halper (ICAHD) and Itay Epshtain, March 2012 >>> https://facebook/rima.najjar.merriman/media_set?set=a.10152114556133422.1073741930.636428421&type=1
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