Israeli police have forcibly evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the flashpoint neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem and later demolished it, in a move rights groups and diplomats decried as illegal under international law.
The family-of-15, including several children, were left homeless in the freezing winter weather after the Israeli security forces demolished the building. It is an area that Israel captured during the 1967 war and then annexed. Sheikh Jarrah is where Israeli authorities have repeatedly forcibly evicted long-term Palestinian residents to make way for Jewish settlers, despite widespread international condemnation.
