JERUSALEM — Israeli police and Palestinians clashed for a second night Thursday in annexed east Jerusalem, amid a controversial land rights case over the fate of Palestinian families threatened with eviction.
The legal case centers on the homes of four Palestinian families on land claimed by Jews, with violence flaring ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on the issue due on Monday.
The clashes are the latest unrest to rock the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood near Jerusalem’s walled Old City, where land disputes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers have fuelled hostility for years.
Israeli police said Thursday they had arrested seven people for “assault”, and deemed the situation …
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