Sheikh Jarrah Eviction Part of Larger Project of Expropriation and Displacement

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is not an isolated event but an ongoing process, of which the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem are only the latest victims.

by Matthew DeMaio

On Tuesday morning, Israeli police evicted the Shamasna family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The family, who were made refugees from West Jerusalem in 1948, had rented the house since 1964. The eviction, which made way for Israeli settlers, is part of Israel’s ongoing process of expropriat…