Jordan, on Monday, decried the Israeli aggression within the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, calling it a breach of worldwide legal guidelines, Anadolu Information Company studies.
“The eviction and deportation orders towards the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem are a violation of worldwide and humanitarian legal guidelines,” Haitham Abu Al-Foul, spokesperson for the Jordanian International Ministry, stated in an announcement.
Abu Al-Foul harassed that Israel as an occupying energy is obligated to guard and defend the Palestinians’ rights of their houses, including Israel’s practices deepen the occupation and undermine peace.
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On Sunday, not less than 31 Palestinians within the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood sustained accidents and 12 others had been detained when the Israeli forces attacked a rally by the Palestinians, who had been protesting Israeli eviction orders towards Palestinian households.
Final yr, tensions ran excessive within the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood after an Israeli court docket ordered the eviction of a number of Palestinian households in favour of Israeli settlers.
In 1956, 28 households settled in Sheikh Jarrah underneath an settlement between the Jordanian authorities, which dominated the West Financial institution, together with East Jerusalem, earlier than the Israeli occupation in 1967, and the UN Aid and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Israeli settlement associations, nonetheless, declare that the houses had been constructed on land that was owned by Jews earlier than 1948, a declare vehemently rejected by Palestinians.
