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Wheelchair-bound Palestinian, wife evicted from their home

Israeli police on Sunday evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from the occupied Jerusalem home in which they have lived for more than 50 years, despite the intervention of the United States.

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  • Published: 22:54 November 10, 2008
  • Gulf News

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli police on Sunday evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from the occupied Jerusalem home in which they have lived for more than 50 years, despite the intervention of the United States.

A court in July ruled that the east Jerusalem housing provided to Mohammad Al Kurd and his wife Fawzieh in 1956 by the Jordanian government and a UN refugee agency was built on land to which their title was in doubt and they must vacate the property.

A Jewish group says it has papers dating back to Ottoman times proving that the land was originally owned by Jews who fled when Jordanian troops overran east Jerusalem in the fighting which accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.

Stay with neighbours

Police removed the wheelchair-bound Al Kurd and his wife from the building before dawn on Sunday. They plan to stay with neighbours while they search for a new home.

US Consulate spokes-woman Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm said American diplomats "raised the issue of this particular family with the Israelis last summer."

She could not say if they would make a formal protest following the eviction.

The couple, now in their 60s, became refugees when the newly-established Israeli state took over their family holdings in west Jerusalem and the Mediterranean port of Jaffa in 1948, neighbours said.

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