Jerusalem / PNN exclusive / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh – In the latest assault on Jerusalem property, the home of Fatima Al Daoudi was seized on Saturday night. Dozens of settlers from Ateret Kohnim descended on the Palestinian home on Saturday night while Fatima Al Daoudi was visiting relatives in Jordan. Her son Mohammed Zuhair Al Daoudi was in town.

Although an eviction order was obtained, it was only temporary and the settlers are expected to return.

In the past two weeks Jewish settlers took the Al Kurd family home while seven others were delivered evacuation orders for settlers in East Jerusalem.

The home, located in the Old City, was overtaken Saturday night. Settlers changed the locks on the gates and put a sheet of tin on the roof of an open air porch built in 1948.

Homeowner Fatima Daoudi’s son Mohammed Zuhair Al Daoudi rushed to his house after a call from one of the neighbors, and upon his arrival attempted to prevent the settlers from entering.

The 80 square meter house is located inside a yard with an adjacent house already seized by ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlers.

Lawyers went to the Israeli Magistrate Court on Sunday morning and were able to obtain an eviction notice against the settlers. AlDaoudi then took the court order to the Israeli police station to evict the settlers.

At 4:00 in the afternoon, after several calls made by Al Daoudi, the police finally arrived and took the settlers from the second floor. The keys for the changed locks were given to the lawyer. No restitution was made for damages.

The court order is temporary and the settlers are expected to return as another Palestinian family is driven from the city.

Mohammed Al Daoudi criticized the Israeli police for procrastinating its implementation of the evacuation of the settlers as the order was delivered at 10:00 am yet the evacuation was not carried out for another six hours.

Al Daoudi told PNN, “I’ve lived in this house since 1930, where my grandmother, my aunt and my mother, who was born here, also lived. The settlers used the time of my mother’s trip to Amman to seize the house.”

The Prime Minister's Advisor for Jerusalem Affairs, Hatem Abdel Qader, told PNN, “The Israeli government and the settlers seize property in Jerusalem without any legal right.”