٠٠:٠٢:٥١Demonstrators rallied at an anti-eviction protest in East Jerusalem settlements on Friday.
Protesters gathered near the settlement of Sheikh Jarrah after a call by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an extra-parliamentary association representing Arabs living in the country.
"The issue is not a real estate issue nor a case of identification papers, but rather a political issue in the sense that the aggression is the Judaisation of Jerusalem and the consecration of the Israeli occupation. We are here against the Israeli occupation and against the looting of homes from their original owners," explained Ahmad Tibi, a member of Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
The protest which ended with a group march followed weeks of escalating tensions between the two sides in East Jerusalem due to Israeli settlement policies in the area which includes plans to deport Palestinians and demolish Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods to make way for new Israeli settler colonies.
More than 70 Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah area are currently undergoing a legal battle in Israeli courts confronted with the threat of forced displacement.
Four families in seven households have already received eviction warrants ordering them to vacate their homes by May 2 after they initially launched an appeal which the Israeli District Court rejected last February.
East Jerusalem: Protesters rally against evacuation and demolition of Palestinian homes
Demonstrators rallied at an anti-eviction protest in East Jerusalem settlements on Friday.
Protesters gathered near the settlement of Sheikh Jarrah after a call by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an extra-parliamentary association representing Arabs living in the country.
"The issue is not a real estate issue nor a case of identification papers, but rather a political issue in the sense that the aggression is the Judaisation of Jerusalem and the consecration of the Israeli occupation. We are here against the Israeli occupation and against the looting of homes from their original owners," explained Ahmad Tibi, a member of Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
The protest which ended with a group march followed weeks of escalating tensions between the two sides in East Jerusalem due to Israeli settlement policies in the area which includes plans to deport Palestinians and demolish Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods to make way for new Israeli settler colonies.
More than 70 Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah area are currently undergoing a legal battle in Israeli courts confronted with the threat of forced displacement.
Four families in seven households have already received eviction warrants ordering them to vacate their homes by May 2 after they initially launched an appeal which the Israeli District Court rejected last February.
Demonstrators rallied at an anti-eviction protest in East Jerusalem settlements on Friday.
Protesters gathered near the settlement of Sheikh Jarrah after a call by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, an extra-parliamentary association representing Arabs living in the country.
"The issue is not a real estate issue nor a case of identification papers, but rather a political issue in the sense that the aggression is the Judaisation of Jerusalem and the consecration of the Israeli occupation. We are here against the Israeli occupation and against the looting of homes from their original owners," explained Ahmad Tibi, a member of Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
The protest which ended with a group march followed weeks of escalating tensions between the two sides in East Jerusalem due to Israeli settlement policies in the area which includes plans to deport Palestinians and demolish Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods to make way for new Israeli settler colonies.
More than 70 Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah area are currently undergoing a legal battle in Israeli courts confronted with the threat of forced displacement.
Four families in seven households have already received eviction warrants ordering them to vacate their homes by May 2 after they initially launched an appeal which the Israeli District Court rejected last February.