Scores of Palestinians demonstrated today in the Arab city of Jaffa in Israel in protest of Israeli plans aimed at ethnically cleansing nearly 1,400 Palestinian families out of the city.
Scores of #Palestinians demonstrated on Friday in the Arab city of #Jaffa in protest of Israeli plans aimed at ethnically cleansing nearly 1,400 Palestinian families out of the city.#PALESTINE https://t.co/kn49JdwXps
— The Palestine Project (@PalestineProjct) September 16, 2022
The protesters waved banners expressing rejection of the Israeli eviction plan, which is being implemented under the so-called ‘absentee property law’, under which hundreds of indigenous Palestinian families could be evicted out of their homes in favor of Israeli settler organizations.
Palestinians protest in #Jaffa for second week against Israeli eviction plans - https://t.co/R0RihR0s7L #Palestine pic.twitter.com/zd7X1dVexA
— al whit? (@soitiz) September 16, 2022
The protesters chanted, "Jaffa is not for sale," stressing that the ethnic cleansing of native Palestinians in Jaffa is just a time bomb to drive all of its Palestinian citizens out on the long run.
TODAY: Palestinians, joined by anti-Zionist Israeli activists, protest in #Jaffa against the Israeli attack on #Gaza. Protesters held Palestinian flags and signs that read: "Israel is an apartheid state", and called for resisting Israeli colonialism. Photos by Activestills. pic.twitter.com/jPGKjn0dQ5
— Activestills (@activestills) August 7, 2022
Most of Jaffa’s Palestinian population were forced to flee the city during the 1948 Zionist occupation of historic Palestine, the events that were later known as the Nakba (catastrophe), but a community of approximately 15,000 Palestinians, who now hold Israeli citizenship, are still present in their ancestral land.
