Several Palestinians were injured on Wednesday evening in an attack by Israeli police forces and Jewish settlers on Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported four pepper spray injuries among local residents who were trying to prevent the settlers’ break-ins into their homes.
This came after Israeli settlers stormed the neighborhood and assaulted its residents amid an IOF-imposed lockdown preventing peace activists’ entry to support local residents.
The settlers attacked a number of homes threatened with eviction chanted anti-Arab slogans and raised the Israeli flag.
Palestinian activists had earlier called for intensifying presence in Sheikh Jarrah to confront the settlers’ planned attacks on the neighborhood.
Earlier Wednesday a Jewish settler was lightly injured after being allegedly stabbed by a Palestinian minor at the entrance to the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Israeli police claimed the arrest of a Palestine teenage girl suspected of carrying out the attack in a nearby school.
Police said the suspect was a 14-year-old girl who lives in Sheikh Jarrah.
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has been the target of repeated settlement activity by the Israeli government and religious settler organizations due to its strategic location in Occupied Jerusalem.
Dozens of Palestinian families were ordered to evacuate their homes as a means of forcing them to leave this religiously-significant city – thereby leaving it clear for the expansion of settlements.
