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Plan for Beit Yehonatan Eviction Notice Postponed at Last Minute

Published by on February 8, 2010

(IsraelNN.com) The Jerusalem municipality postponed its plan Monday to serve eviction notices to residents of Beit Yehonatan, the Jewish-owned building in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shiloach (Silwan). The change of plan came about after police recommended not to go ahead with the serving of the eviction notices.The municipality’s plan called for serving eviction notices to additional structures in eastern Jerusalem, which are occupied by Arabs, at the same time when the eviction notice to Beit Yehonatan is served.
There were unconfirmed reports Monday that hundreds, perhaps thousands of supporters of Jewish resettlement of Jerusalem were in the vicinity of Beit Yehonatan and were preparing to protest the eviction notice. Residents of Beit Yehonatan insist that their own protest will be carried out in a completely nonviolent way. Israeli courts have issued repeated orders for eviction and sealing of Beit Yehonatan, a five story Jewish-owned building in a largely Arab neighborhood. In addition, the Deputy State Prosecutor wrote a letter last week to Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat, in which he demanded immediate compliance with the orders. The Jerusalem Municipality said that it would carry out the order unwillingly, and insisted that about 200 illegally built Arab structures in the area also be demolished.

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