Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of plans to evict the Sumreen family from their home in Silwan, East Jerusalem.

We are following the situation in East Jerusalem closely and have been monitoring the case of the Sumarin family. An official from the British Consulate-General attended the most recent court hearing on 30 June, where the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the family must leave their home by 16 August. We remain concerned about the ongoing eviction of Palestinians from their homes. Such evictions cause unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians; call into question Israel's commitment to a viable two-state solution; and, in all but the most exceptional of cases, are contrary to International Humanitarian Law.