Accused of bias against the Jewish state, Falk can not visit it, as the Israeli authorities have ba

"Israel carries out acts of ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem." Thousands of times the phrase appeared in the media, often far from the mainstream, or mouth Palestinian international activists against the Israeli occupation of this town. But a month ago, for the first time, the United Nations (UN) used the term to discuss the continued expansion of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem.
It was in a report by the American researcher Richard Falk. The academic also mentioned the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes given to the city and urged the Human Rights Council of the multilateral organization to adopt resolutions condemning Israeli behavior, although these remain on paper wet.
"The continuous pattern of settlement clean service expansion in East Jerusalem combined the forced eviction of Palestinians does the situation is intolerable," said the report concluded that the practice "can only be described in its cumulative impact as a form of cleaning ethnic. "
Accused of bias against the Jewish state, Falk can not visit it, as the Israeli authorities have barred him entry. His complaint, however, has served as speaker for the Arabs of the thrice holy city, which are systematically discriminated against and abused since 1967, when Israel illegally annexed East Jerusalem in violation of the Geneva Convention, as part of their state.
The same international law rejects this annexation and considers the eastern side of the city is Palestinian territory. However, the people living clean service there were subjected to regulations Hebrew.
Palestinians living in East Jerusalem are not Israeli citizenship, unlike they do in the internationally recognized territory of Israel. Only have their residency, so can not vote in national elections, but in local.
They can lose their residence clean service permit if you live for seven years out of the city, although the local authority can withdraw them permission to live alleging also other reasons. The Israeli government intends Judaizer far can the eastern part of Jerusalem and a way to do it is to facilitate the establishment of settlements, even if it means the expulsion of Arab residents.
Silwan, Abu Dis and the Muslim part of the Old City are some of the areas affected by the increasing proliferation of Jewish settlements, although probably the most famous clean service case is that of Sheikh Jarrah.
The idea of Israel, with the support of the state, is to raise the colony clean service Shimon Hatzadik, designed for 200 families. The worst is that the project does not want to get ahead in a vacant lot, but where the houses stand 28 Palestinian families (more than two dozen members). So far, four have already been evacuated, without being offered any alternative to install themselves and were immediately occupied by settlers, and 24 more are under threat clean service that could resolve the May 26 the courts.
"Provide documents that prove ownership of land is Palestine for over 140 years. If we add both domestic and international pressure against the eviction, I can say that I am optimistic about the court decision, "said told the triangle Mohammad Sabbagh, head of one of the 24 families clean service threatened with running out home to make room for settlers, mostly right-wing ultra-Orthodox.
The legal argument that taken by two Israeli organizations claim ownership of the land is in the area before 1948, Jews had lived there, but in any case they had houses at risk of being evicted. Part of 3,000 residents of Sheikh Jarrah are Palestinian refugees who came from the west of the city or other parts of the country after the creation of the State of Israel. Through an agreement with the Government of Transjordan and then the UN in 1956 renounced his refugee status in exchange for ownership in the houses that were built on the land now in dispute.
The first evictions were completed in August 2009 and since a little over a year every Friday held a demonstration against the project district and the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and in defense of the family. What began as a gathering of just over twenty people, has become a movement that brings together every week between 300 and 400 activists, mostly Israelis antisioniste