After years of legal struggle, the last Palestinian family living in the A-Tur settlement building, evicted today their apartment and settlers moved in. The building, called by the settlers “Beit Hachoshen”, is located on top of Mt. of Olives, not far from the 7 Arches Hotel, in the Palestinian neighborhood of A-Tur in East Jerusalem. In 2006, settlers moved into the house and established the settlement in A-Tur on Mt. of Olives, while one of the Palestinian families continued to live in their apartment at the first floor of the building.
The court recently ruled that the apartment belongs to the settlers, who bought it from the Palestinian owner, and today the police ordered the family to move out. The settler moved in, only few minutes after the Palestinian family left.
The settlers, connected to the Elad association, are now controlling the whole building in addition to another apartment in the the house next to it.
The “Beit Hachoshen” settlement in A-Tur. Settlers moved into the first floor