From Marcy Newman's report yesterday on EI about "ethnic cleansing:" continued seizure of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem by religious crazies backed by the Israeli government.
On 2 April, while Nasser [Jaber] was
visiting his mother in the nearby Wadi Joz neighborhood, 42 Israeli
colonists from Ataret Cohanim, armed with M-16s, broke down the door of
the house [in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem] and confiscated the apartment inside belonging to Hazem
Jaber. It was 2:30 am and they were aided by Israeli special forces. The
mosque in the neighborhood alerted families in the area and a fight
ensued in the street. Twenty Palestinians, including women and
children, were beaten up by special forces police and seven were
arrested, including Nasser, his brothers, and his son. Sami al-Jundi,
one of Nasser's neighbors who was beaten up, observed, "They did not
use live ammunition or tear gas bombs. Instead they beat us with batons
and sprayed us with pepper spray. They know that if Palestinian blood
spills in the streets of the Old City a third intifada will follow."
