Israeli Supreme Court delays hearing on Palestinian evictions from East Jerusalem neighborhood

Israeli Supreme Court delays hearing on Palestinian evictions from East Jerusalem neighborhood

The Supreme Court said the hearing, which was supposed to take place Monday, was canceled at the request of the State Attorney General.

Last week, the court said it would hear an appeal by the Palestinian families against their eviction from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, in the latest development in a decades-long legal case.

A pro-settler organization called Nahalat Shimon is using a 1970 law to argue that the owners of the land before 1948 were Jewish families, and so the current Palestinian landowners should be evicted and their properties given to Israeli Jews.