The last remaining Palestinians in a building filled with Israeli settlers, the Ghaith-Sub Labans have battled Israeli attempts to force them out for the past 45 years.
JERUSALEM — Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the city more than the apartment of 68-year-old Nora Ghaith-Sub Laban.
FILE – Nora, right, and Mustafa Ghaith-Sub Labans, seen in their home in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, June 15, 2023. The family has battled Israeli attempts to force them out for the past 45 years. The campaign ended this spring, when the Israeli Supreme Court struck down their final appeal in favor of Jewish settlers contending they violated the lease. Now, Israeli authorities have ordered the eviction of the family to take place by July 13.
The Ghaith-Sub Laban case is not a dispute over a single property, advocates say, but part of a wider effort by Israeli settlers, with government backing, to cement Jewish control over the contested city, especially the Old City, home to Jerusalem’s most important holy sites. Captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed in a move not internationally recognized, east Jerusalem has long been a crucible in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nearly 1,000 Palestinians, including 424 children, currently face eviction in east Jerusalem, the United Nations humanitarian office said. As residents of the same Muslim Quarter apartment for seven decades, Nora’s family gained the status of protected tenants, putting Israeli law on their side.
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