Palestinian Presidency Stresses Need to Provide International Protection to Palestinian People

Israeli Police Arresting Palestinian People

The Palestinian Presidency has asserted that events taking place in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem since Saturday and the increasing settlers' violence require an urgent international intervention to provide protection to the Palestinian people.

Official spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement today, the continuation of "the Jewish terrorism" in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the daily attacks in other Israeli cities, villages and camps represents an Israeli political orientation and decision, which reflect the reality of the Israeli entity that defies international law and the US administration, which announced its rejection of the displacement of the Palestinian population and all unilateral measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities.

He added that the policy of population displacement and house demolitions requires the international community to turn its condemnations into serious and real pressure, and to impose sanctions on the Israeli entity to oblige it to adhere to the international legitimacy, noting that "the system of apartheid and displacement has plunged Israel into complete isolation and has become outside the international law." and that its non-compliance with the resolutions of international legitimacy turned it into an apartheid state.

Abu Rudeineh stressed that the peaceful popular resistance will remain the most important and most effective weapon for restoring the Palestinian rights.
Concluding, Abu Rudeineh said that all settlements are illegal in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions, therefore, the Israeli entity must be forced to stop unilateral measures and come under pressure to stop its crimes against the Palestinian people, who are subjected to a policy of racial discrimination recognized by international human rights organizations.

Since Saturday evening, Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem has witnessed tension between Palestinian citizens and settlers, after hundreds of extremist settlers were mobilized to storm the neighborhood and attack its residents and their property, with the support of extremist Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir, who announced the transfer of his office for the second time to the neighborhood, but this time to its western side.

For nearly a year, Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood have been facing the threat of eviction from their homes in favor of settlement associations, and hundreds of Palestinians in other Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem are also facing threats of eviction.