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May 12, 2021 11:50 IST
Tensions have been building up since the start of Ramzan in mid-April when Israeli police set up barricades at the Damascus Gate outside the occupied Old City
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A Palestinian boy watches smoke billowing from targets during Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza region of Khan Yunis, controlled by the Hamas movement, on May 11, 2021.
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Tensions have been building up since the start of Ramzan in mid-April when Israeli police set up barricades at the Damascus Gate outside the occupied Old City
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On Monday, Israeli armed forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Haram esh-Sharif in Jerusalem, ahead of a march by Zionist nationalists commemorating Israel’s capture of the eastern half of the city in 1967. More than 300 Palestinians were injured in the raid. In retaliation, Hamas, the Islamist militant group that runs Gaza, fired dozens of rockets. The Israelis launched an airstrike on Gaza in resp
Turkey’s anti-Israel Anadolu Agency gives a summary of the background behind the headlines in Sheikh Jarrah:
In 1956, the 28 refugee families who lost their homes during the Nakba reached an agreement with the Jordanian Ministry of Construction and Development and the UN refugee agency UNRWA to provide housing for them in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
At that time, the West Bank was under Jordanian rule (1951-1967).
According to the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCPRJ), the Jordanian government provided the land while UNRWA covered the cost for constructing 28 homes for these families.
âA contract was concluded between the Ministry of Construction and Reconstruction and Palestinian families in 1956, with one of the main conditions stating that the residents pay a symbolic fee, provided that ownership is transferred to the residents after three years from the completion of construction,â the CCPRJ said in a statement.
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The photograph shows the Israeli soldiers in control of the area where Muslims were offer Shab al Qadar prayers on May 8, 2021. Pic: Social media
JERUSALEM: In the aftermath of the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians by Zionist gangs to pave the way for the creation of the state of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee their homes in historical Palestine to neighbouring countries.
Following these events, which came to be known to the Palestinians as
Nakba, or the Catastrophe, 28 families settled in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem in 1956, hoping that would be the last time they are forced out of their homes.
AMMAN The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called for immediate international intervention to halt Israel’s legalisation of illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.