In an attempt to replace Palestinians with Israeli  settlers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, an Israeli court has ordered at least a dozen families to hand over their homes in occupied East Jerusalem.

Sit-ins and protests took over the neighbourhood after the court denied the Palestinian families’ appeal against the decision in March. The court asked around 50 people to evacuate by May 2, and around 70 of the neighbourhood’s residents will face eviction this August.

Having lived in these homes for decades, Palestinians have been resisting the decisions as Jewish settlers and police show up to force them out. Resulting in an open genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, along with violent war crimes and police brutality. 

Why does no International Law apply to Israelis?

Under international law transferring civil population in to occupied territories is illegal.

We would like the United Kingdom’s government to intervene to halt any forced evictions in Israeli annexed East Jerusalem- Sheikh Jarrah. 

In addition we would like to urge the United Kingdom’s government to ask Israel to reverse its decision in, advancing the construction of 540 settlements units in Har Homa E area of the occupied west bank and to cease its policy of settlement expansion across the occupied Palestinian territories.