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Israeli security forces confront Palestinians gathering outside the Israeli Central Court in east Jerusalem on June 10, 2021, during a protest over Israel's planned evictions of Palestinian families from homes in the eastern sector's Silwan district
The Israeli-run municipality of Jerusalem has called for the eviction of 100 Palestinian families from their homes under the pretext that they were built without permits, Shehab news agency reported on Sunday. Once the families are evicted, said local media, they will be demolished to make way for the construction of a "biblical park" for use by illegal settlers.
According to Arieh King, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, the municipality proposed to the Palestinian residents that they can be moved elsewhere, but they refused. "God gave us this land, and who are we to give this land to somebody else? The law is the law. Any illegal building should be demolished in Jerusalem."
Bustan neighbourhood, he confirmed, is going to be demolished for "a park, public buildings, street lights, everything." As a leader in the settler movement, King planning for more settlers to move to occupied Jerusalem in order to ensure that "it is the eternal Jewish capital".
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