Eviction in battle for East Jerusalem
bbc world news
16-Nov-2008 (one comment)

Fawzia al-Kurd, 52, raises her black cloak to show the bottoms of the pyjamas she is still wearing several days after she and her wheelchair-bound husband were forced from the home he had lived in for five decades.

She had no time to change or gather her possessions when the Israeli police arrived in the early hours of Sunday morning.

In borrowed shoes, she shows us around the tent that she now calls home near the single-storey, two room house in East Jerusalem.

Jewish Israelis who had already moved into the extension the Kurd family had built for their son, have now taken over the rest of the flat.

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Mehdi Mazloom

Read the article...........in its entirety.

by Mehdi Mazloom on Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:00 AM PST

Quote from the same BBC World News article.

"He (Muhammad Al-Kurd) had lived in the house for 52 years when the Israeli Supreme Court served an eviction order on him in July."

"Mrs Kurd says she turned down an offer of US$10m for her modest apartment." 

Now, if she and her husband claim to be a destitute, forced to live under a government to which they do not accept nor recognize.

Add to that, they have lived there for only 52 years (instead of "Generations", as other Palestinians claim). Furthermore, when a supreme court of Israel (which is known for not always side with Israeli sides), declares that their claim of ownership in invalid, Why would anyone in his right mind turn down such a generous offerr of $10M. Sell and move on with their lives somewhere else.?

"Paralyzed", "Sick", "on Wheelchair".

 


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