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Email Gideon Sa'ar, the Israeli Foreign Minister, to help stop the Diab family from being evicted.
Email Gideon Sa'ar, the Israeli Foreign Minister, to help stop the Diab family from being evicted.
Take urgent action for Saleh Diab
Saleh Diab and his family are at risk of unlawful transfer from occupied East Jerusalem after the Israeli District Court rejected their appeal against eviction from their home.
This is what apartheid looks like.
UPDATE: The Israeli Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision regarding the request for leave to appeal no sooner than the second half of July.
Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, successive governments have designed laws, policies and practices to ensure the continued fragmentation of the Palestinian people.
The settler group Nahalat Shimon International is using these same laws as the legal basis to demand the expulsion of Saleh Diab and his extended family of 23 from their present home in Sheikh Jarrah.
Beyond litigation, Saleh Diab has been engaged in nonviolent resistance, serving as a central figure in weekly demonstrations opposing settler-led evictions in Sheikh Jarrah from 2009 until they were halted in October 2023 due to the crisis in Gaza. Israeli settlers continue to violently harass him and his family. Saleh Diab has been the target of police brutality, state-backed settler violence and relentless surveillance, yet his campaigning to defend his home and his neighbourhood never wavered.
We're now at the final legal lifeline for him and his family. Urge the authorities to immediately halt the eviction of the Diab family and end the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
Laws like the 1970 Legal and Administrative Matters law allow Jewish-Israelis to pursue claims over land and property they had allegedly owned before 1948. No such right is granted to Palestinian refugees and internally displaced. These laws harm people like Saleh Diab, who cannot return to his family home in Jaffa’s al-Ajami neighbourhood from which his family had been expelled in 1948.
Several Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah, such as al-Daoudi, Dajani, Hammad, al-Kurd, Qasim, Skafi and Jaouni families, have also received eviction orders but managed to temporarily halt them through Supreme Court rulings. These rulings acknowledged their status as protected tenants pending land ownership resolution under the reactivated Settlement of Land Title (SOLT) process. Saleh Diab’s case was treated differently; the courts argued his family was not among those listed by Jordan in the 1950s, disqualifying them from the same protection.