On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent procession against the illegal colonialist activities and confiscation of Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied Jerusalem, and abducted five locals and international peace activists.
Media sources said the Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, gathered on the main street in Sheikh Jarrah before the soldiers assaulted them.
They added that the army abducted five Palestinians and international activists, including the local nonviolent figure Mohammad Abu Al-Hummus.
The Palestinians and internationals were protesting the illegal takeover of Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah for the benefit of paramilitary Israeli colonizers.
The soldiers started attacking the nonviolent protesters, dragging them away and clubbing them.
In a recent report from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN experts stated that the July 11, 2023, expulsion of the Ghaith-Sub Laban family from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem “may amount to a war crime of forcible transfer.”
The experts added that “we have repeatedly said forced evictions of Palestinians in east Jerusalem are part of Israel’s apartheid machinery at work.”
The report showed that in occupied East Jerusalem, at least 150 Palestinian families are at risk of forced displacement by Israeli authorities and settler organizations.
In the year 2020, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that Israeli colonialist groups filed lawsuits with Israeli courts to displace more than 218 Palestinian families (970 persons, including at least 424 children) in occupied East Jerusalem, including 75 families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
