Under the slogan "No to uprooting, No to occupation," "No to Iraqi cleansing" and "We will not leave," hundreds of Jerusalemites and homeowners chanted in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood this Friday evening, during a rally rejecting the decisions of the Israeli courts to uproot the residents of the neighborhood handing over their homes to settlers.
The march started from the center of the main street in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood towards the houses that were seized - the house of al-Ghawi and Hanun - chanting “Outright, outright settler and occupation, we don’t want to see.” Dozens of them stood in front of the entrance to the seized houses in the neighborhood carrying slogans and loudspeakers. They chant "No to the occupation", "No to displacement", "Jerusalem is Arab".
While the march was led by Arab representatives in the Knesset, including Dr. Ahmed al-Tibi, Sami al-Saadi, MK Aida Touma-Sliman, and the head of the High Follow-up Committee, Muhammad Zeidan, as the Israeli police prevented her from entering the neighborhood through the military checkpoint and the concrete squares that they placed at the entrance to the neighborhood at the beginning of the events.
The police reinforced their presence this afternoon, in Sheikh Jarrah, they increased the number of their members and sent reinforcements on the hill of the neighborhood. A team of soldiers began photographing the participants in the march, narrowing them down and preventing a number of them from reaching the march by closing the main street of Sheikh Jarrah - near the mosque and diverting traffic to Street No. One and prevented hundreds from participating in the march, which is the largest in weeks.
neighborhood, to demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, coinciding with the hearing of the case next Monday.
Dr. Ahmed al-Tibi said during the march, "We are here to express our solidarity with our people in Sheikh Jarrah and to express our rejection of their displacement and to strengthen their steadfastness and their staying in their homes."
Dozens of foreign solidarity activists, journalists, students from Palestinian universities, Arab students from Israeli universities, and lecturers from all universities participated in the march. Among them are the Palestinian media, chanting against the Israeli occupation and its racist policies, and beating big drums, “No to the occupation.”
Also, artistic, theatrical and representative groups from the Palestinian interior in 1948 participated in the march along with representatives of the national and Islamic forces in Jerusalem and the Palestinian interior.
