Jérusalem-Est : affrontements lors d’une manifestation contre des expulsions de Palestiniens

 

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 Le 4 mai, la police israélienne a arrêté plusieurs personnes lors d’une manifestation contre les expulsions prévues de familles palestiniennes dans le quartier de Sheikh Jarrah, à Jérusalem-Est. 

Les manifestants se sont rassemblés devant l’une des maisons du quartier dont les résidents risquent d’être expulsés, avant que la police ne tente de les disperser. 

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• On Monday, at least 20 Palestinians were injured in a brawl after Israeli police stormed a solidarity demonstration with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah.

The Israeli district court in East Jerusalem approved a decision to vacate six Palestinian families from their homes in May in favour of Israeli settlers. The same court ruled that another seven families in Sheikh Jarrah are to leave their homes by August 1.

Since 1956, a total of 37 Palestinian families have been living in 27 homes in the neighbourhood – including 28 refugee families who were ethnically cleansed from their homes in Jaffa and Haifa in 1948.

However, illegal Jewish settlers have been trying to push them out on the basis of a law approved by the Israeli parliament in 1970.

The Palestinians say they established their homes in 1956 under an agreement with the Jordanian government, which then had jurisdiction over the area, and the UN refugee agency UNRWA.