JERUSALEM -- When Samira Dajani's family moved into their first real home in 1956 after years as refugees, her father planted trees in the garden, naming them for each of his six children.
The Dajanis are one of several Palestinian families facing imminent eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of east Jerusalem. The families' plight has ignited weeks of demonstrations and clashes in recent days between protesters and Israeli police. Samira Dajani's parents fled in 1948 from their home in Baka -- now an upscale neighbourhood in mostly Jewish west Jerusalem. After several years spent as refugees in Jordan, Syria and east Jerusalem, which was then controlled by Jordan, Jordanian authorities offered them one of several newly built homes in Sheikh Jarrah in exchange for giving up their refugee status.
The Dajanis and other families have been ordered to leave by Aug. 1. A Supreme Court hearing in the case of another four families that was to be held on Monday was postponed for at least a month. If they lose the appeal, they could be forcibly evicted within days or weeks. Jews born in east Jerusalem are automatically granted Israeli citizenship, and Jews from anywhere else in the world are eligible to become Israeli citizens.
Let me fix that for you...Palestinians stubbornly refuse to accept court offer, choose to politicize their situation, and are now about to lose their homes because of their obstinacy. Do better
Isreal needs help!