Israeli police just forcibly expelled a Palestinian family from their home in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City and promptly turned it over to right-wing Jewish settlers under a convoluted racist law that declares Jews the pre-Nakba "rightful owners" of the property. The family has lived in the house for 67 years. Police also arrested the Abu Asabs' father and son, and assaulted other relatives. Video of the action is wrenching; it also makes clear the Nakba is ongoing.
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