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Rabat – The 11-day war between Israel and Palestine in May has resulted in Israel’s supreme court to offer Palestinians facing eviction from the Sheikh Jarrah a deal aimed at safeguarding 70 Palestinians from getting displaced from their home land.
According to International media, Israeli Justice, Isaac Amit, ordered a compromise agreement to the Palestinian people fighting evictions that were lead by Isreali settlers.
“What we are saying is, let’s move from the level of principles to the levels of practicality,” Amit said at the proceedings, adding that “people must continue to live there and that’s the idea, to try to reach a practical arrangement.”
According to the deal, 70 Palestinians would gain “protected status” that would guarantee their security in the “coming years,” in exchange for a fee of $457 (MAD 4,160) per year. The fees would go to the Nahalat Shimon settler organization – the rightful owners of the disputed properties, according to Israeli courts.
According to Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid, the judge offered Palestinian families the option of signing a statement declaring that the land and properties belong to the Jewish settlers. By so doing, the Palestinian families would have been able to “rent in that house for the next three generations,” the journalist said.
“They placed a lot of pressure on us to reach an agreement with the Israeli settlers in which we would be renting from the settler organisations,” Muhammad al-Kurd, a member of one of the families involved in the case, told Al Jazeera.
The 11-day war, which ran through May 10-21, resulted in the deaths of 232 Palestinians, of whom 65 were children. The war has further led to nearly 2,000 Palestinians injured, and at least 72,000 displaced. In addition, Israeli airstrikes destroyed at least 18 buildings, the office of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund amidst them. The IDF also damaged or destroyed a minimum of 40 schools, four hospitals, and at least 19 medical facilities.
