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Dear Friends,
The Hashimah family from Jerusalem’s Old City are facing a double tragedy. Umm Basem, pictured below with her son Amir, passed away a week ago. Amir and his siblings lost a mother, and their children lost a grandmother. Just days after her passing, the grieving family received a letter expressing the sender’s condolences along with an eviction order for the entire Hashimah family.
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Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story coming from Jerusalem.
Threats of eviction or home demolition are an everyday reality for entire Palestinian communities.
Just yesterday, settlers with a police escort fenced off land in Sheikh Jarrah that the Salaam family, a family of 11, lives on. Earlier this week they were handed an eviction notice by two key settler activists and Jerusalem City Council members, Deputy Mayor Aryeh King and Jonathan Yosef, who claim to have purchased the land from heirs of Jewish owners pre-1948.
As of December 29, the Selaam family can be forcibly evicted from their home where they have lived for over 70 years.
The Salaam family is just one of 70 families in Sheikh Jarrah who face displacement via eviction by settler groups aided and abetted by state bodies.
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Umm Basel (L) and her son Amir. Following Umm Basel's passing, her family received an eviction order.
Fatma Salaam's (R) family plot of land was fenced off this week after they were personally handed an eviction oder by Deputy Mayor Aryeh King. Fatma has lived in her home since 1952.
Photo Credit: Yuval Abraham
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Ir Amim works together with Palestinian partners to change this reality. Ensure that our vital work for a just and equitable Jerusalem as the present home and future capital of two peoples continues.
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Hear more about this urgent issue and others on Sunday, December 19th at 8PM JLM | 6PM GMT | 1PM EST when Ir Amim’s Executive Director Yudith Oppenheimer sits down with acclaimed Haaretz journalist Amira Hass to discuss settlement expansion, mass displacement, and tensions at Jerusalem's holiest sites.
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With Gratitude,
Ir Amim Staff
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Want to learn more about Ir Amim's work? Watch our virtual discussions below:
- An Annexed Jerusalem: Settlements, Society, and Separation, featuring Ir Amim's Senior Field Researcher Aviv Tatarsky and Palestinian East Jerusalemite cultural leader Mahmoud Mouna.
- From "United" Jerusalem to Greater Jerusalem: Annexation 1967-2020, featuring acclaimed professor of policy, Menachem Klein, and East Jerusalemite civil society & social justice activist Nivine Sandouka.
- Ir Amim and Breaking the Silence - A City Annexed Together, featuring Breaking the Silence's Executive Director, Avner Gvaryahu, Ir Amim's Executive Director, Yudith Oppenheimer, and Hoqoqna - Our Rights' Executive Director, Nivine Sandouka.
- A Conversation with Prof. Naomi Chazan and Atty. Ziad AbuZayyad, featuring former Palestinian Authority minister, Atty. Ziad AbuZayyad, and former Israeli Knesset member Prof. Naomi Chazan, exploring the long-term effects of the Trump days and if we have better days ahead.
- Silwan & Sheikh Jarrah: Not a 'Real-Estate' Dispute, Ir Amim's virtual conference on measures of mass displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem.
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