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In East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinians brace for battle over evictions


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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. ....

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