Israeli police have forcibly thrown out two Palestinian families at gunpoint from their homes while immediately moving in Israeli settlers.
At around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Israeli police first demolished the gates of the two houses, rushed in and forced the two families out of their houses at gunpoint, without permitting them to remove their belongings or furniture.
The police threw out both families, among them many children, and arrested an Israeli and international activists who were staying with the Palestinians in their homes to support them.
The police tried to seal off the entire area from journalists but those who came near the evicted Sheikh Jarrah area homes, were pushed out.
As soon as the expulsion of the Palestinian families was completed, settlers arrived with a truck and began to move the possessions of the two families out of their homes. Hours later, settlers moved their families and belongings into the houses while the Israeli police stood guard to protect them.
The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) was built by the UN and the Jordanian government in 1956 to house Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. With the start of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem (al-Quds), following the 1967 war, settlers began claiming ownership of the land the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was built on.
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