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At Reuters and AP, the Sheikh Jarrah players fill clearly delineated roles: The Palestinian families stand in a united front against Israel's usurping settlers. ....
The four Palestinian families at the heart of the case have faced pressure from all sides not to take the compromise, which would have allowed them to stay as protected tenants ....
425SHARES It’s one of the most fundamental principles of the system of private property: Tenants must pay rent, or face eviction. That is the case here in the U.S. just as it is in Israel. Yet, this basic piece of common sense is lost in most of the reporting on the current situation in Sheikh Jarrah, also known as Shimon HaTzadik. The issue is essentially a private property dispute, that has been politicized to forward an anti-Israel narrative, and is being manipulated on an international scale. The Times of Israel quotes one of the residents who is at risk of eviction, Abdelfattah Eskafi, admitting that he has not paid rent on his property, and that his non-payment is for ideological, not financial, reasons. “We can’t accept such a thing, although of course we know it’s a risk,” Eskafi told ....
05-07-2021 Flames from a car set on fire during clashes between Israelis and Palestinians JERUSALEM, Israel – Violence erupted Thursday night between Israelis and Palestinians in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the site of a legal dispute that could lead to the evictions of dozens of Palestinians from their homes. Israelis and Palestinians threw objects at each other as tensions boiled over. At one point, a car belonging to Israelis was set ablaze by Arab protestors, Ynet reports. Video shows Israelis near the burning vehicle with their guns drawn, and one man fired a shot into the air. ....
55 shares Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah, April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) In a few weeks, Abdelfattah Eskafi may be forced out of his home of 65 years in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. “It’ll be the destruction of our lives, of our memories here, of our children’s lives,” said Eskafi, 71, who has lived in the neighborhood since he was six, about a decade before it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. Eskafi is one of dozens of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah who may be removed from their homes in the coming weeks if the Supreme Court turns down their appeal against a pending eviction. They are likely to be replaced by right-wing Jewish nationalists who say the Palestinian homes were built on land owned by Jewish associations before the establishment of the State of Israel. ....