#SaveSheikhJarrah: israel Breaks International Law by Expelling Palestinians From their Own Land, and the International Community Remains Silent

Analysis by Roa Daher, Featured Writer

On May 2nd, 2021, Mohammed Al-Kurd and his family will have to leave their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and they are not alone. By order of the Jerusalem District Court, six families comprising 27 people, including Al-Kurd’s family, will be forcibly evicted from the houses they have lived in for seven decades. The expulsion of Palestinians from their homes to replace them with israeli settlers has been an inhumane and illegal project ongoing since the 1948 Nakba. If the indigenous Palestinian population isn’t being threatened with eviction, then they are consistently harassed by israeli settlers.