Under Police Protection; Settlers Occupy Home In Beit Safafa

Monday May 03, 2010 09:55 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Enjoying Israeli police protection, a group of fundamentalist settlers occupied a Palestinian home in Beit Safafa town, in East Jerusalem, and raised Israeli flags on top of it “to declare their victory”.

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Local sources reported that the settlers and the police attacked the family while forcing them out of their home, and forcibly removed them from their property.

The settlers then held a “dance square” to celebrate while the police provided them with protection.

Forty members of Salah family lived in the property in question, the take-over also includes a piece of land the surrounds the building.

On April 22, the Israeli authorities demanded the family to pay 65.000 New Israeli Shekels in fines and penalties for not implementing a High Court order to leave the property.

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