Israel has illegally ordered 42 Palestinians to leave their homes in Batn al-Hawa, East Jerusalem, by May 17, so it can hand the homes to Israeli terrorist settlers.
Half of the people Israel is illegally evicting are children.
Israeli authorities ordered 42 Palestinians in Batn al-Hawa, half of them children, out by 17 May.
Properties are set to be handed to settler group Ateret Cohanim.
An occupying power cannot remove protected persons except in limited circumstances.
This is forcible transfer. https://t.co/aoxosL5ece pic.twitter.com/YJHjAcLnrv— Norwegian Refugee Council (@NRC_Norway) April 29, 2026
“Reclamation” — for who?
Israel is handing the properties to the illegal settler group Ateret Cohanim. The entity claims to be:
[a] leading urban land reclamation organization in Jerusalem, which has been working for over 40 years to restore Jewish life in the heart of ancient Jerusalem.
Of course, in this context, restoring Jewish life means the theft of more Palestinian land and homes — illegal under international law. Article 49 of the Geneva Convention prohibits:
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory […] The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
So not only is it illegal to forcibly evict Palestinians from their homes, but it is also illegal to then move Israeli’s into those homes.
Additionally, the Hague Regulations [1907] prohibit the seizure and destruction of private property. This means that both building and expanding settlements breach international humanitarian law.
5/6 Under international law, the forcible transfer of Palestinians under occupation is prohibited.
The confiscation of private property is also prohibited, except where absolutely necessary for military operations.
— Norwegian Refugee Council (@NRC_Norway) March 17, 2026
Similarly, the Rome Statutestates that the forcible expulsion of a population is both a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Scores of Palestinians ordered out from their neighborhood in the old city of Jerusalem. Their homes are given to settlers.
This is forcible transfer, a war crime under both the Geneva Convention 4 and the Rome Statute. https://t.co/VQ5LZJSWFI— Abdel Aziz Hamad ALUWAISHEG (@abuhamad1) April 29, 2026
As the International Committee of the Red Cross said, the occupying power:
has a duty to ensure the protection, security, and welfare of the people living under occupation and to guarantee that they can live as normal a life as possible, in accordance with their own laws, culture, and traditions.
Not the first time
Israel issued a similar evacuation order in February, which evicted 80 individuals in the same neighbourhood. The properties went to the same illegal group. Illegal settlers evicted 11 of the 15 families by force.
3/6 Between December & January, Israeli authorities forcibly evicted 30 Palestinians in the neighbourhood.
The cases are driven by the settler organisation Ateret Cohanim, which seeks to take over the land through claims linked to a Jewish trust dating to the early 20th century.
— Norwegian Refugee Council (@NRC_Norway) March 17, 2026
So far, Israel has forcibly and illegally removed 37 families from the neighbourhood since 2015. This amounts to hundreds of people.
4/6 Israeli law permits Jewish claims to property in East Jerusalem from before 1948. Palestinians remain barred from reclaiming property they lost in the same period.
— Norwegian Refugee Council (@NRC_Norway) March 17, 2026
Ethnic cleansing
Israel is the modern day Nazi state. Just like the Nazi’s did to Jews in Europe during World War 2, Israel is forcibly expelling Palestinians from their land.
Israel may not be Nazi, but the methods used by Zionists seem like those used by the Nazis.
https://t.co/17cngttC1D
— Paolo (Poli) Bolpet (@Bolpet) April 30, 2026
There is a word for forcibly expelling people from their homes…
Ethnic cleansing house by house, neighborhood by neighborhood.
Palestinians in Jerusalem are being expelled from their homes in order to hand them over to Jewish settlers. https://t.co/WSm6gsaV89
— Khaled Elgindy (@elgindy_) April 29, 2026
Genocidal settler-colonists succeed in further ethnic cleansing with full impunity. DISGUSTING.
WHEN WILL WE SEE CONSEQUENCES??? https://t.co/rOFoW5RC7d
— Skwedaibagol
(@SkwedaibagoI) April 29, 2026
Yet, where is the Western media outrage? Where are the politicians calling out the war crimes?
This is a crime, yet another crime, committed by Israel without a murmer of protest from governments that trumpet the purported values of democracy at every other opportunity.
Thank you, @NRC_Norway, for being almost the last organisation on earth with any integrity. https://t.co/oQtNLGOns6
— John Kittridge (@JohnKittridge) April 29, 2026
It’s very naive of countries war criminal leaders & govs that allow/enable/aid/abet/fund/protect/support/give impunity 2 terrorist genocidal apartheid wanted war criminal Israel, 2 think they’ll get away with it.
The world & @IntlCrimCourt
won’t let them!https://t.co/Iw3oDUEWbh— Ange
#WeAreAllEqual (@Ange_Sandgrown) April 29, 2026
Two jews are stabbed in London, and understandably, the whole world is up in arms. Yet Jewish supremacists in Israel commit crimes like this every single day without fail, and there isn’t a single whimper from the mainstream media or politicians.
Israel is committing war crime after war crime, and let’s not pretend that stealing all of Palestine was not its plan all along.
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