Tension in East Jerusalem over possible eviction Palestinian families

Record ID: 1615091

  • Title: Tension in East Jerusalem over possible eviction Palestinian families
  • Date: 6th May 2021
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (MAY 6, 2021) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VEHICLE BURNING OUTSIDE ISRAELI SETTLERS' HOUSE IN SHEIKH JARRAH, EAST JERUSALEM ISRAELI POLICE STANDING IN FRONT OF VEHICLE BURNING ISRAELI FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVING AT SCENE ISRAELI FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE AT SCENE FIREFIGHTERS PUTTING OUT FIRE PALESTINIANS WATCHING SCENE OF BURNING FIRE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD JERUSALEM RESIDENT, MOHAMMED ABU SNEINEH, SAYING: "There is a house for Palestinian Muslims and a house for settlers. WHITE FLASH (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD JERUSALEM RESIDENT, MOHAMMED ABU SNEINEH, SAYING: "Why did they come, this land is ours. Why do they want to displace us from it." ISRAELI FORCES IN TUSSLE WITH ANTI-EVICTION PROTESTERS IN SHEIKH JARRAH NEIGHBOURHOOD IN EAST JERUSALEM ISRAELI FORCES DETAINING MAN ISRAELI FAR-RIGHT POLITICIAN ITAMAR BEN-GVIR OUTSIDE OFFICE HE SET UP ON THURSDAY AT THE SITE OF A HOUSE WHERE ISRAELI SETTLERS LIVE OPPOSITE PALESTINIANS WHO FACE EVICTION ​13. (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) ISRAELI FAR-RIGHT POLITICIAN ITAMAR BEN-GVIR, SAYING: "I came here because children and women are being attacked every evening, who are afraid to leave the house. Unfortunately, the police are not receiving the right orders. By the way, we have great police officers, but we simply need to give them the right orders, with determination - determination - to deal with whoever hurts children." PALESTINIAN YOUTHS CHANT SLOGANS NEAR EVICTION SITE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST FROM ISSAWIYA, EAST JERUSALEM, MOHAMMED ABU AL-HUMMOUS, SAYING: "The events in Sheikh Jarrah, there are legal procedures that the residents of Sheikh Jarrah are awaiting, and all Jerusalemites, and Palestinians in general. This decision is unjust towards Palestinians, it is being delayed in the court because it is not legal and it is not just." ISRAELI FORCES MEMBERS AT THE EVICTION SITE (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) ISRAELI BRIGADIER GENERAL, SHMUEL MARTSIANO, SAYING: "We are in Othman Ibn Afan Street in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. We are witnessing a protest between Jews and Arabs, which has been ongoing for several days now. The cause is the houses here. I would like to mention that the situation here is very complex because the participants in the protest are partly people who live here, next to each other. This is an area that regularly sees protests." ISRAELI FIREFIGHTERS TACKLING VEHICLE FIRE ISRAELI SETTLERS GATHERED ISRAELI FIREFIGHTERS TACKLE VEHICLE FIRE
  • Embargoed: 20th May 2021 23:56
  • Keywords: Israel Jerusalem Palestinians West Bank settlement
  • Location: JERUSALEM
  • City: JERUSALEM
  • Country: Jerusalem
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001EBTSYTJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Scuffles between Israeli forces and Palestinians took place in an East Jerusalem neighbourhood on Thursday night (May 6) over possible the eviction of Palestinian families.
    Israeli police said they had arrested nine people for disorderly conduct or assault as settlers faced off with Palestinian protesters in what have become nightly clashes.
    A Reuters reporter saw a car ablaze near a home taken over by settlers. It was not immediately clear who torched the car.
    Israel's Supreme Court is due to hear challenges next week to the evictions of Palestinians ordered by a lower court that found in favour of settlers' claims. Human rights groups say the ruling if upheld, could set a precedent for dozens of more homes.
    A far-right Israeli lawmaker, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he was setting up an office in the neighbourhood - known to some Jews as "Simon the Just," after an ancient high priest buried there.
    "I came here because children and women are being attacked every evening, who are afraid to leave the house. Unfortunately, the police are not receiving the right orders," Ben-Gvir said.
    France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain urged Israel on Thursday to halt settlement-building in the West Bank.
    The joint statement came as tensions simmered around East Jerusalem, another territory Palestinians seek for a future state, where Jewish settlers backed by an Israeli court have taken over some homes in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
    "We urge the government of Israel to reverse its decision to advance the construction of 540 settlement units in the Har Homa E area of the occupied West Bank, and to cease its policy of settlement expansion across the Occupied Palestinian Territories," the European nations said in a joint statement.
    "If implemented, the decision to advance settlements in Har Homa, between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem, will cause further damage to the prospects for a viable Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian State," they said.
    Israel captured East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in a 1967 war. It deems all of Jerusalem its capital, a status that has not won international support.
    (Production: Sinan abu Mayzer, Suheir Sheikh, Stephen Farrell)
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