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Hundreds of people packed Gould Park in South Paterson on Tuesday to rally for Palestinians and call for an end to forced evictions of families in Jerusalem amid a deadly flare-up of violence in the region.
The crowd waved flags and placards calling to save Sheikh Jarrah, the East Jerusalem neighborhood where families face eviction by settlers, creating a rallying cry for Palestinians who say it’s part of a larger Israeli effort to push them out.
“How would you feel if someone arrived at your doorstep, in your house and you’ve lived there for 20-plus years and said they were taking your house? Haram,” Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said, using the Arabic word for forbidden or a shame. “This is a civil rights issue. This is a human rights issue.”