High Court freezes demolition orders for 38 homes in East Jerusalem village

Judges grant a six-month stay to allow homeowners time to produce plan for town’s full legalisation; court rejects petition to halt fundraising for West Bank outposts

Rabbinic human rights org. commends High Court freeze of Palestinian evictions near Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post)
The Green Line runs through al-Walaja, located just south of Jerusalem, leading to ongoing legal problems and looming demolitions

Supreme Court freezes demolition orders for 38 homes in East Jerusalem village (Times of Israel)
Judges grant a 6-month stay — day after Blinken wraps up trip — in order to allow al-Walaja homeowners to produce a master plan that could pave way for town’s full legalisation

Israel's top court rejects petition calling to halt fundraising for West Bank outposts (Haaretz)
Israel's High Court of Justice ruled on Sunday against a petition demanding that the police confiscate money raised for the reestablishment of two illegal outposts demolished by the authorities in the West Bank.

The petition, filed by left-wing organisation Peace Now, claimed that the right-wing NGO Vayarshtem Ota raised more than 320,000 shekels (almost $A133,000) to re-establish the two outposts, Maoz Esther and Aira Shachar, and argued that the court should instruct the police to confiscate the money to prevent the commission of illegal acts.

Photo: A Palestinian man stands in front of a house in the village of Al-Walaja in 2018 after it was demolished by IDF troops (Mussa Qawasma/Reuters)