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How Sheikh Jarrah became flashpoint in latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Critics of Israel say the planned evictions in the East Jerusalem neighborhood discriminate against Palestinians.

Al-Monitor Staff
Al-Monitor Staff
May 13, 2021
Sheikh Jarrah expropriated home
Religious Jewish men stand on the roof of a house seized by new Jewish owners in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on Sept. 8, 2017. The Palestinian Shamasneh family lived in the home for over half a century until it was evicted Sept. 5, 2017. The family fought a court battle for years against Jewish claimants who said the land was their family property, which they fled when East Jerusalem was occupied by Jordanian troops in the 1948 war that led to the creation of the Jewish state. — THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images

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