A final eviction notice for the Rajabi family in Silwan… Deadline is set for early next month
Joint teams from the Enforcement and Execution Department and the police raided the Rajabi family's property in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday.
The Israeli occupation authorities delivered an eviction order to the Rajabi family (Nasser, Ayed, and their mother), declaring the property vacant in favor of settlers. The order stipulated that the eviction must be carried out by the beginning of December.
The property, consisting of three apartments, is home to approximately 50 people, including children and the elderly.
For over a decade, the Nasser Rajabi family has been engaged in a legal battle in Israeli courts to retain their property, navigating between the Magistrates', District, and Supreme Courts. The settler organization filed its first legal claim against the family in 2016, demanding the land on which the property stands. Subsequent hearings followed until the first eviction order was issued by the Magistrates' Court in 2020, and the Supreme Court issued its final ruling in mid-2025.
The Wadi Hilweh-Silwan Information Center stated that the Ateret Cohanim organization claims ownership of approximately 5200 square meters of land in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, alleging that it belonged to Yemeni Jews since 1881. Since 2015, the organization has been serving families in the neighborhood with notices and legal summonses demanding they vacate their homes, following its acquisition in 2001 of the right to manage what it calls "Jewish Association Properties," which claims ownership of the land.
On Sunday, the Shweiki and Odeh families were evicted from their properties in the neighborhood as part of the same settlement plan.
