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Aggressive takeover12/31/2022 The expulsion of Palestinians goes back to the period 1948-1967, when Jerusalem was under Jordanian control. Seizing control of the neighbourhood would bring the entire eastern side of Jerusalem under Israel’s authority. The neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, located to the north of Jerusalem’s Old City, contains one of the main arteries linking the concentration of the city’s Jewish population in the city to Hebrew University. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. “We will not leave” written on the walls of a Palestinian family’s home, at risk of being evicted by Israeli settlers. This despite Palestine’s United Nations-backed claim to at least part of the city as its capital. Since then, consecutive Israeli governments have sought to displace the Palestinian population from the city of Jerusalem to shift its demographics to a Jewish majority, in line with efforts to position the city as Israel’s capital and mobilize countries to relocate their embassies there. Fast-forward to the Six-Day War-also known as the June 1967 War-when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank, including Jerusalem and its environs. They were prevented from doing so by the British forces, which were protecting the city of Jerusalem at the time. The struggle over Sheikh Jarrah’s back to 1948, when representatives of the then-nascent state of Israel tried to storm the neighborhood, displace its people and destroy their homes. This was followed by Israeli forces’ storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, one of Islam’s holiest sites, firing tear gas and stun grenades and wounding many, and coincided with Israeli settlers appropriating the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, citing Israeli court verdicts. This resulted in protests-which have come to be called the “Bab Al Amud Uprising”-which eventually displaced the barriers and obstacles erected by the Occupation forces. Occupation Israeli forces set up barricades to block Jerusalemites from accessing the area of Bab Al-Amud, preventing them from observing a longtime ritual of casual gatherings in that part of the Old City. The tensions in Jerusalem coincided with the start of Ramadan on May 13. Meanwhile, hundreds of Jerusalemites have been wounded by occupation forces who have clamped down on protesters and worshippers in the past weeks. So far, at least 122 Palestinians, including 31 children, have been killed, and the death toll is climbing.Įight Israelis have been killed as Hamas, which governs Gaza, fired hundreds of rockets on Israeli-occupied territories, in response to earlier Israeli provocation. The blockaded enclave of Gaza has been pounded by Israeli airstrikes as Muslims mark the end of Ramadan, their holy month of fasting. Since Kurd posted her video, tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories have flared up to the worst level in years. The video of the exchange Kurd posted on her Instagram page was shared on many news pages and sites, going viral and becoming iconic of the oppression her family-and the neighbourhood-currently faces. Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah resident Mona ElKurd’s Instagram video of her encounter with an Israeli settler who tells her: “If I don’t steal your house, someone else will steal it.” As a result of the video, ElKurd has become an icon of the struggle between the Palestinian residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood and the Israeli settlers who have been authorized by law to evict them from their homes. Shows Israeli settler trying to take over Palestinian house This is how an Israeli settler called “Yakob” responded to the Jerusalemite journalist Muna ElKurd when she asked him to leave the garden of her home in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. ( ) – “If I don’t steal your house, someone else will.” Written by أيمن حسونة Translated by Yasmeen Omera
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