JERUSALEM, May 7, 2012 (WAFA) – A Palestinian family from Jerusalem Monday received an Israeli court eviction order from its house in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem in order to hand it over to settlers, according to the family.

The order was issued in the name of Fatima Salamieh, who has been living in her Sheikh Jarrah house since the 1950s. Israeli groups claim the house and the entire area where the house is located is owned by Jews and that they were claiming it back.

Several Palestinian families have lost their homes in the same neighborhood and under the same pretext in recent months. Jewish settlers had moved into the homes the Palestinian families were forcefully evicted from.

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