The Jerusalem neighbourhood symbolizing the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation

Palestinians fear the Israeli government is backing plans by hardline Jewish settlers to displace them from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem and end any chance of it one day serving as the capital of a Palestinian state.

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