culmination of a decades-long struggle for Palestinian residents to stay in their homes and could work to ease tensions in Sheikh Jarrah and other neighborhoods, where protests and clashes in 2021 sparked the eleven-day Israeli bombing of Gaza.

Sami Irshid, a lawyer representing the Palestinian families, told AFP the decision was “significant.” “The decision of the Supreme Court today cancels the evic-tion while the issue of ownership is decided,” he said.

“The court decides that the past decisions re-garding ownership do not apply, and the residents of Sheikh Jarrah can argue their ownership and prove their ownership,” he added. He said the court agreed that there's a strong claim of Palestinian ownership of the property and that his clients “feel some relief that they are...

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