According to a report carried out by Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights, an Israeli organisation, 40% of Jaffa’s 20,000 Arabs live in ‘Absentee Ownership’ (AO) homes, houses that Arabs were forced to flee when Jaffa was ethnically cleansed in 1948. The Israel Land Administration (ILA), which owns 90% of land in Israel and is responsible for the management of public land, has contracted Amidar, a state-run housing company, to manage the AO homes. “Amidar wants to evict these people in order to profit from the lucrative real estate potential”, Jaffa resident Louis Williams told us. “Three years ago, roughly one quarter of the Arab community, comprising 497 homes, were issued with eviction or demolition notices”.
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