Israeli settlers accompanied by police took over a building in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem early Thursday morning, evicting families from three of the building's apartments.
Israeli National Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said two Israeli families entered the Old City home "based on documents claiming that they owned the property." He described the eviction as proceeding without incident.
The home, two stories with 11 small family apartments, is owned by the families of Suleiman Handal and Kamal Karsh and located in the As-Sa'dieh neighborhood near the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Three of the apartments housed families, totaling 50 residents. It was not immediately clear how many were taken out of the home.
According to Fatah Revolutionary Council Member Demitri Delani, many of the women and children refused to be evicted and remained in their homes with barricaded doors.
By noon, Rosenfeld said he believed there were no Palestinians in the home.
Delani said the settlers now occupy five homes, and he fears the building could be taken over as a settler Yeshiva explaining that the building was a school before 1967, after which it was converted into apartments.
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