The Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Lynn Hastings, said that hundreds of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem are at risk of forcible eviction.

In a tweet on her official Twitter page, the UN coordinator said, "Today, Sunday, elderly members of the Sub Laban family may be evicted from their home in which they lived since 1954 in the Old City of Jerusalem."

She added, "Hundreds of Palestinians are at risk of forced eviction in East Jerusalem. This devastating practice - which is contrary to international law - must end."

Today, Sunday, the eleventh of June, the Israeli occupation authorities set a deadline for the eviction of the Sub Laban family from their home in favor of the settlers.

And last Thursday, the European Union office said in a tweet it posted on its official page on "Twitter" that "about 150 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are at risk of eviction and forced displacement" from the Israeli occupation authorities.

The European Union reaffirmed its opposition to the Israeli settlement policy, and the measures taken in this context, including forced evictions.

The house of the Sub Laban family is located in a building in Aqaba al-Khalidiyah in the Old City, directly overlooking the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is inhabited by the seventy-year-old Mustafa Sub Laban and his wife Nora. Settlers previously seized an upper part of the building and another part of it several years ago, and the house of the Sub Laban family remained. In the middle of the building, which is surrounded by settlements on all sides.

It is noteworthy that a case was filed against the Sub Laban family in an attempt to forcibly evict them from their home in 1978, and the family entered into a whirlpool of courts and cases with the Israeli occupation and settlers, and fought seven court battles, including in 2000, when the family won the case and stayed at home.

In 2010, the occupation authorities transferred the property to the "Ateret Cohanim" settlement association, which began filing cases against the family in an attempt to forcibly deport them. In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision to prevent the presence of children and grandchildren in the home, with the aim of preventing them from claiming the right to protection as a third generation, while the spouses remain in it.