Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces suppressed a demonstration in which Palestinians and foreign and Israeli activists participated in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the center of occupied Jerusalem, and beat some of them.
The demonstrators demanded the lifting of the siege on the neighborhood, and chanted slogans demanding the annulment of decisions to deport Palestinian families from it in favor of Israeli settlers, and expressed solidarity with Silwan neighborhood, which faces the same fate.
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of Palestinians and foreign and Israeli solidarity activists gathered in front of the closed neighborhood since May 16, chanting slogans of solidarity with its residents and raising Palestinian flags.
The witnesses added that the Israeli occupation forces responded by firing stun grenades at the solidarity activists, and beat some of them, and prevented journalists from entering the neighborhood and obstructed their work.
Since last April 13, the situation in the Palestinian territories has exploded as a result of violations committed by the Israeli police and settlers in Jerusalem, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where Israel is seeking to evict 12 homes of Palestinian families and hand them over to settlers.
In response to widespread violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacks on worshipers inside it, on 28 Ramadan, corresponding to May 13, Palestinian factions in Gaza fired dozens of rockets at Israeli settlements near the Strip.
On the same day, the occupation launched a brutal aggression on Gaza by land, air and sea that lasted for 11 days, killing 255 Palestinians, including 66 children, 39 women and 17 elderly people, before ending with a ceasefire.