Tel Aviv, Israel: Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a group of families evicted from a flashpoint in East Jerusalem can stay in their homes for some time.
The ruling could serve to defuse tensions in the neighborhood, which helped ignite the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza last year.
The court ruled that families could stay in their homes until Israel created a land system, a process that could take years or may not be done at all, according to Ir Amim, an advocacy group that works in this area. Court trial was not involved.
Dozens of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are at risk of being ousted by Jewish settlers, and thousands are at risk of demolition because of discriminatory policies, making new homes for Palestinians or expanding existing ones extremely difficult. gets tough.
Sheikh Jarrah and other threatened evictions in other neighborhoods that have been tied up in a decades-long legal battle between Palestinian residents and Jewish settlers set off protests and conflict last year, which ultimately helped ignite the Gaza War.
In the 1967 Middle East War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem along with the West Bank and annexed it in a move that was not recognized by most of the international community. Israel considers the entire city as its capital, and the municipality says it is working to improve services for all residents.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state, and the fate of the city is one of the most divisive issues in the century-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
How East Jerusalem Flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah Got Its Hashtag The eviction appeal of Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was delayed