Palestinian families targeted for eviction from their homes: Report

Residents of a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood close to the Old City of Jerusalem are facing eviction from their homes according to a report in The Guardian on Monday.

Zohair Rajabi, 55, and his extended family are facing eviction from their four-storey home in Batn al-Hawa that his grandfather built on land he bought 60 years ago. 

The nighborhood in east Jerusalem has been a target of an Israeli organisation for decades, which has been working to seize control of parts of Jerusalem after the 1967 war. 

Hundreds of Palestinians have been targeted, and some have already been evicted. 

Palestinians make up almost half - 40 percent - of the population of Jerusalem population. Successive Israeli governmenta have been working to increase the Jewish population of the city.