Israel settlers remove furniture of Palestinian family expelled from East Jerusalem home

Israeli settlers have removed furniture belonging to a Palestinian family who was expelled from their home in occupied East Jerusalem's Old City two weeks ago.

Owner Nora Sub Laban and activists supporting her outside her longtime residence were forced away by Israeli police and settlers. While they were being pushed out, Rafat Sub Laban was arrested.

Israeli settlers took over the family's home on 11 July after they were expelled by Israeli forces.

The Sub Labans had rented the home in 1953 from Jordan, which at the time controlled East Jerusalem.

Israel took the city's eastern sector during a 1967 war.

It has since been alleged the property had belonged to Jews before 1948, the year Israel was created alongside the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the Nakba ("catastrophe" in Arabic).

This assertion has been completely rejected by the Sub Laban family.

Israeli authorities and settlers have long sought to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem.

They wish to make East Jerusalem - the city's Palestinian side - into an Israeli area, erasing its Muslim and Christian character along the way and replacing it with a Jewish one.

These attempts are commonly known as "Judaisation".

Across East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank, there are 700,000 Israeli illegal settlers.

The construction and expansion of settlements eat up Palestinian territory.

Settlements breach international law and are considered a key barrier to a workable two-state solution.