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Israel s Supreme Court delayed a decision on Monday in the case of Palestinian families facing expulsion by Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, an issue that contributed to the armed conflict in May.
Palestinians said they were offered the chance to remain in their properties in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood as protected tenants who would recognise Israeli ownership of the homes and pay a symbolic annual rent, but they refused. They placed a lot of pressure on us to reach an agreement with the Jewish settlers in which we would be renting from the settler organisations, said Muhammad el-Kurd, from one of four Palestinian families at the heart of the case.
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image captionSamira Dajani and Adel Budeiri are among the Palestinians threatened with eviction
Samira Dajani and Adel Budeiri s garden feels like an oasis - a peaceful place of bougainvillea, lavender and shady fruit trees at the centre of a furious, incendiary dispute which helped to trigger a conflict.
The Palestinian couple s single-storey stone house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah is one of 14 where Palestinian residents - 300 people in all - face eviction to make way for Jewish settlers, in a case that has made it all the way to Israel s Supreme Court.