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Israeli police enforce court order to evict Palestinians from longtime home
Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family from a home in east Jerusalem Tuesday to make way for new Jewish tenants who claimed ownership. Municipality officials backed by armed police officers enforced a court order to remove the six-member Shamasneh family from a home claimed by heirs of a Jewish family forced to abandon it in 1948 when it came under Jordanian control. Israel took control of the area after the 1967 war and continued existing rental arrangements with Arab tenants.
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