The peace Now Organization said it was informed that the district court of Jerusalem rejected the Sumarin family’s appeal regarding the eviction lawsuit filed by the Himanuta Company, subsidiarity of the Jewish National Fund. The court ruled that the family failed to prove its rights to the property and should, therefore, vacate it in favor of the JNF by August 16, 2020.  In their joint response, Israeli non-governmental organizations, including Peace Now, Rabbis for Human Rights and Oz ve-Shalom-Netivot Shalom, stated that the eviction is based on the abuse of the Absentees’ Property Law, enacted in 1950 to allow the young State of Israel to deal with the hundreds of thousands of properties abandoned by its Palestinian owners who became refugees during the war in 1948. To check the news, click here