on may 10 israeli armed forces stormed al-aqsa mosque in the haram al-sharif injerusalem  islam's third holiest site ahead of a march by zionist nationalists commemorating israel's capture of the eastern half of the city in 1967. more than 300 palestinians were injured in the raid in retaliation hamas the islamist militant group that runs gaza have fired over a thousand rockets into israel so far this has killed eight people in israel till now including an indian woman working as a maid the israelis have launched severalairstrikes on gaza in response killing over 130 palestinians including nine children so far the ongoing violence in jerusalem is a combination of tensions building up since the start of ramazan in mid-april when israeli police set up barricades at the damascus gate a main entrance to the occupied old city preventing palestinians from gathering there it led to clashes the threatened eviction of dozens of palestinian families in the east jerusalem neighborhood of sheikh jarrah escalated the crisis further in the last week of ramzan

clashes adopted on the night of may 7 in jerusalem betweenpalestinian protesters and israeli

police

in which hundreds of palestinians and

police personnel

were injured

the israeli authorities had given

permission for the jerusalem day march

traditionally taken out by far-right

zionists

through the arab quarter of the old city

ahead of the march on may 10 which was

rerouted given the tensions

israeli armed forces stormed al-aqsa

rubber bullets

stun grenades and tear gas to evict

palestinians

who israel said had camped there with

stones

and molotov cocktails

hamas issued an ultimatum to the israeli

troops to stand down from al-aqsa

by evening they launched rockets and

israeli strikes followed

a jewish settlement agency has issued

eviction notices to palestinian families

in sheikh jarrah claiming that their

houses sit on land

purchased by jewish agencies in the late

19th century

when historic palestine was a part of

the ottoman

empire arab families have been living in

sheikh jarrah for generations

after 28 palestinian families

first moved there during the creation of

the state of

israel in historical palestine in 1948

when hundreds of thousands of

palestinians were

forced out of their homes

in 1956 when east jerusalem was ruled by

jordan

houses were constructed for these

families in sheikh jara

east jerusalem from

jordan in 1967

and by the early 1970s jewish agencies

started demanding the families leave the

land

the israeli supreme court hearing was

postponed on advice from the government

amid the ongoing violence in jerusalem

the issue remains unresolved and

potentially inflammable

jerusalem has been at the center of the

israeli-palestinian

conflict according to the original 1947

u.n partition

plan jerusalem was proposed to be an

international city

but in the first arab-israel war of 1948

the israelis captured the western half

of the city

and jordan took the eastern part

including the old city that houses haram

al-sharif

till israel captured east jerusalem in

the 1967

six-day war and annexed it later

since its annexation israel has expanded

settlements in east jerusalem

which is now home for some 2 lakh 20 000

jews jews born in east jerusalem

are israeli citizens while palestinians

in the city are given

conditional residency permits

palestinians in east jerusalem unlike

other parts of the occupied west bank

can however apply for israeli

citizenship

very few palestinians have done so

israel sees the whole city as its

unified eternal capital

a claim endorsed by donald trump when he

was the u.s

president but not recognized by most

other countries

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the palestinian leadership across the

political spectrum have maintained

that they would not accept any

compromise formula for the future

palestinian state

unless east jerusalem is its capital