The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the Israeli occupation court in occupied Jerusalem recently issued decisions forcing hundreds of Jerusalemites to evacuate their homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as part of a forced displacement campaign targeting the neighborhood.

The governorate stated in a statement on Thursday evening that the "Ateret Cohanim" colonial association obtained, during the past two weeks, court rulings from the occupation court in occupied Jerusalem, ordering the eviction of 26 Palestinian families, including 154 individuals, from their homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, on the pretext that they are built on lands that were owned by Jews before 1948.

The rulings, issued in five cases, stated that the evacuation of the homes must be carried out within the next six months. The court also ordered Palestinian families to pay trial costs of 50,000 shekels for each case.