PA forcibly evicts Palestinian families from homes in Ramallah
Three Palestinian families were forcibly evicted from their homes in the
occupied West Bank city of Ramallah by Palestinian Security Forces on
Wednesday, on the grounds of a rental lease dispute with the Palestinian
Ministry of Finance.
Palestinian human rights NGO Al-Haq condemned the eviction, saying it
amounts to a forced and unlawful eviction. Al-Haq added that: “The
forcible eviction included the removal of their belongings from their
homes, without regard for the bad weather conditions, or for the safety
and dignity of the residents, including children, women and the
elderly”.
The eviction came after an order was issued by the Ministry of Finance
against five Ramallah families. The families rented their houses from
their Kuwaiti owners in the 1960s but following the Israeli occupation
of the West Bank in 1967 they were made to pay rent to Israel’s
Custodian of Absentees’ Property.
After the 1993 Oslo Accords, the ownership of these houses was
transferred to the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Property Tax Department
in the Ministry of Finance, to which residents continued to make their
rental payments until today.
However, the Ministry of Finance requested its property from the tenants
earlier this year through the Public Prosecution, without sufficient
judicial grounds. The families appealed against the notice at the
Conciliation Court of Ramallah, where the court judge ruled against the
eviction. Despite this ruling, the Public Prosecution and PA police
forces forcibly evacuated three of the houses.
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