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Email the Mayor of Jerusalem and help stop the Diab family from being evicted.
Email the Mayor of Jerusalem and 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.
Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, successive governments have designed laws, policies and practices to ensure the continued fragmentation of the Palestinian people. Laws like the 1970 Legal and Administrative Matters law, which 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 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.
The settler group Nahalat Shimon International is using this same law as the legal basis to demand their 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.