Palestine slams Israeli regime’s ‘racism’ in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has slammed the "racist role" of the Israeli regime courts in dealing with the Palestinians’ displacement from their homes, saying the regime’s judiciary is complicit in the ethnic cleansing of people in al-Quds.
The ministry released a statement on Tuesday in reaction to the move by the Zionist entity’s so-called Supreme Court to delay a final verdict on the expulsion of four Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, claiming that it has not sufficiently heard arguments from both sides of the case, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
It added that despite the presentation of documents obtained from Jordan proving the families’ ownership of their homes, the court refrained from recognizing the evidence and accepting the existing facts.
Despite the fact, the court attempted to circumvent the Palestinian families’ right to their homes by pressuring them to recognize the settlers' ownership of the land and houses in return for staying in their homes for a long but limited period of time, the ministry added.
It emphasized that the court used deceit and duplicity to find ways to support the settlers’ allegations and claims of ownership of the Palestinian land and homes.
“The occupation courts play a racist role with regard to the displacement of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood for a political end that does not have legal reference in order to reach one goal and that is to legitimize the settlers' claims of ownership of the land, and to whitewash the forged documents they submitted,” the foreign ministry said.
In all cases in al-Quds, the statement added, the Israeli occupation courts used such clear and repetitive racism, which is “a part of an expansionist colonial strategy based on an attempt to provide legal immunity for the Judaization of al-Quds and its holy places, and the ethnic cleansing of the largest possible number of its indigenous population.”
Elsewhere in its statement, the Foreign Ministry said the Israeli courts’ decisions regarding the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are condemned as they are further evidence that the Israeli judicial system is an integral part of the occupation and a tool for serving colonial settlement plans.
It commended international support for the Palestinian families’ right to stay in their homes but emphasized that such positions are insufficient and should be translated into practical steps.
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