'It is a Nakba': Campaign to save Sheikh Jarrah builds momentum as forced displacement looms – Mondoweiss
a group of Israeli Jewish girls walk past an Arabic poster in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem. April, 2021 (Photo: Saleh Zighari) In a matter of just two weeks, six Palestinian families, numbering 27 people, will be thrown out of their homes and into the street, and replaced with Israeli settlers. The fate of the families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem is essentially set in stone: an Israeli district court rejected their appeal in February this year, ordering them to vacate their homes by May 2, 2021. Another appeal filed b...